
The
Crash-Course On Greenhouse Management For Flower And Vegetable Production is designed to enable owners and managers to "look outside their box" of their daily working activities. In entering the course you will gain insight to production strategies using modern greenhouse production technology and equipment.
The material and equipment used in the course is exactly the same used in contemporary greenhouses; glasshouses, poly-houses and tunnels. Through the course you will gain the practical experience needed to understand implications and interactions of crop physiology, climate control, and water management strategies. You will also be able to upgrade the managerial skills of personnel using technical installations and devices as well as be able to apply the main (technical) criteria for investments in protected cultivation.
The
Crash-Course On Greenhouse Management For Flower And Vegetable Production will provide you with extended knowledge in the areas of:
- Crop physiology of the main cultivated crops;
- Environmental control aspects in protective structures;
- Greenhouse and tunnel structures, cladding materials;
- Heating systems;
- Irrigation and fertilization technology;
- Use of artificial substrates;
- Crop protection;
- Integrated pest management;
- Ergonomics.
The
Crash-Course On Greenhouse Management For Flower And Vegetable Production involves practical training sessions in the technical well-equipped PTC+ greenhouses, demonstrations, lectures, gaining experience by working with equipment in a practical environment, and excursions to seed companies and a commercial seedling producer in the Netherlands.
If you want to find out more about
Crash-Course On Greenhouse Management For Flower And Vegetable Production, you can make an information request below and the school will contact you with further information.