A BASIC STUDY ON DEMAND PREDICTION FOR PLANT FACTORIES

Abstract

Much emphasis is now being given to research and development of fully closed and controlled plant factories, aimed at supplying various vegetables safely and constantly. The plant factories daily produce the large volume of the safely packed vegetables under the artificially controlled environment. One of the important issues in the management and control of the plant factories is to establish a systematic method for the planning for the production and the shipping of the daily produced vegetables to the various customers. The paper deals with a basic study on the demand prediction of the wholesale vegetable markets, aimed at forecasting the customers’ demands to the existing plant factories. The demand prediction is very important for establishing a systematic planning method for production and shipping of the produced vegetables. Especially, an emphasis is gives to the demand prediction model of the representative wholesale vegetable markets.