| Course title | |||||
| Horticultural Structures and Plant Factory [Horticultural Structures and Plant Factory] | |||||
| Course category | Requirement | Credit | 1 | ||
| Department | Year | ～ | Semester | Fall | |
| Course type | Fall | Course code | 018106 | ||
| Instructor(s) | |||||
| 帖佐 直 [CHOSA Tadashi] | |||||
| Facility affiliation | Faculty of Agriculture | Office | Email address | ||
| Course description |
| Agricultural structures such as greenhouse, plant nursery, grain store, etc. are needed for stable productions in various climate conditions. Environmental control technologies, measuring instruments, machines, information technologies applied to horticultural structures are explained with progressive case studies. |
| Expected Learning |
| To understand structures, environmental control technologies. |
| Course schedule |
|
1) Outlines of horticultural production and plant factory 2) Control technologies for horticultural production (i) Temperature and humidity 3) Control technologies for horticultural production (ii) Light and others 4) Automation with mechanization and robotization 5) Utilization of information and communication technologies 6) Evaluation of horticultural structures as working environment (*) 7) Case studies on horticultural structure and environment (*) (*) Marked contents will be given in a study excursion. |
| Prerequisites |
| Required Text(s) and Materials |
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Greenhouse climate control, ed.by Bakker, Bot, Challa and V.d. Braak, Wageningen Academic Publishers (ISBN: 978-90-8686-501-) The Computerized Greenhouse, Hashimoto, Y., Elsevier Inc. (ISBN: 978-0-12-330590-9) |
| References |
| Assessment/Grading |
| Attendance (50%), examination and report (50%) |
| Message from instructor(s) |
| Course keywords |
| greenhouse, information & communication technology |
| Office hours |
| Remarks 1 |
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| Lecture Language |
| English |
| Language Subject |
| Last update |
| 10/16/2018 4:16:10 PM |