Some Topics on Food, Agriculture and Environment

Abstract

Agricultural production is very flexible in their harvest timing, yield and quality etc. compared to industrial production, because of unstable production environment such as climate, soil, coexists exist living things etc and the occurrence of the growth of agricultural product themselves. Therefore, the monitoring and control of agricultural environment such as temperature, air humidity, wind strength and direction, light intensity, soil moisture and nutrients are very important to get stable agricultural production. Some topics such as land based agriculture, glasshouse horticulture; Plant factory and human resources development in university are talked in this lecture.