Plant Factory: An Indoor Vertical Farming System for Efficient Quality Food Production - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0128017759 ISBN 13 : 9780128017753

Editeur : Academic Press, 2015

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Oyoki Kozai

Japan Plant Factory Association (NPO)

c/o Center for Environment, Health and Field Sciences,

Chiba University

6-2-1 Kashiwa-no-ha, Japan

Telephone: 81-4-7137 -8114, Fax: 81-4-7137 -8114

Email address: kozai@faculty.chiba-u.jp

Chief Director, Association for Plant Factory Managers

Chief-Director, Japan Plant Factory Association (NPO)

Professor Emeritus of Chiba University

Summary of Academic achievements

Publications: 270 original papers, 140 review papers, 159 miscellaneous papers,

171 book or book chapters, 7 translations of books from English to Japanese

Patents: 20 active patents, 50 approved patents in total

Number of Invited Lectures at International Meetings: 47

Number of Invited Lectures at National Meetings: 85

National and International Awards

2009 Awarded for Lifetime Achievement from The Society for In Vitro Biology

2003 Awarded for outstanding contribution from Japanese Society of High Technology in Agriculture

2002 Purple Ribbon Award from Prime Minister of Japanese Government for the academic achievement of environmental studies in biology.

2002 Friendship Award from Chinese Government for the 2003 achievement of outstanding contribution to Chinese horticultural industry

2000 Fellow, Japan Association of International Commission of Agricultural Engineering

1997 Japan Prize for Agricultural Science for the academic achievement “Growth Regulation and Mass-propagation of in vitro plantlets by Physical Environment Control awarded by Japanese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and by Yomiuri Newspaper Co.

1992 Prize for academic achievement in “Environmental Control in Photoautotrophic Plant Tissue Culture awarded by Japanese Society of Environment Control in Biology.

1991 Prize for academic achievement in “Fundamental Research on Environmental Control Methods for Factory-type Transplant Production awarded by Japanese Society of High Technology in Agriculture.

1982 Prize for academic achievement in “Solar Light Transmission in Greenhouses awarded by the Society of Agricultural Meteorology of Japan

Revue de presse :

"Plant Factory is very useful for a beginner interested to venture into crop production using plant factory system. It provides a comprehensive information from all aspects of crop production under a housing or factory system, inclusive the design of the structure and lighting and their mantainance. I would recommend it to be used as a textbook for horticulture course on vegetables production system where land is limited such as in urban areas. The science or technical know-how is very strong as a lot of research has been conducted to support the claims. It is quite unusual for a book to even provide information on the training centre whereby a trainee can register himself or herself. As it mentioned, this system of vegetables production is rather costly and the economics or cost-benefit analysis should be included as one of the main topic in the book. Also, the risk or probability of failure of the entrepreneur investing in this system to succeed or make money should also be highlighted. Also, it will be quite useful to know the perception of customers or how to convince the customers to pay more for the vegetables produced in the plant factory." -- Prof. Dr. Che Fauziah Ishak, Universiti Putra Malaysia

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Academic Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0128017759
• ISBN 13: 9780128017753
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 432