ISHS Acta Horticulturae 578: International Symposium on Design and Environmental Control of Tropical and Subtropical Greenhouses
PREFACE |
| Authors: | W. Fang, S.-F. Chang, F.-M. Lu, T.-F. Sheen |
| Abstract:
This was the First International Symposium held in tropical and subtropical area by the International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS) focusing on “Design and Environmental Control of Tropical and Subtropical Greenhouses”. The Symposium was held in Taichung, Taiwan on April 15-18, 2001. Taichung city is located at the central part of Taiwan. At the Symposium, many international participators, especially for those first time visitors, had the opportunity to get acquainted with people in Taiwan, experience different culture, and exchange information. It is hoped that the Symposium in Taichung was fruitful for all attendants and that mutual understanding not only in research areas but also in friendships will continue and extend in the future. The symposium covered various horticultural and engineering aspects of tropical and subtropical greenhouse design and environmental control related topics. They were categorized into 8 sessions including: “Past, Present and Future of Controlled Environment Agriculture”, “Environmental Control”, “Innovated Design”, “Integrated Pest Management and Fertigation”, “Controlled Environment Crop Production”, “Monitoring, Control and Decision Support”, “Simulation” and “Poster”. The number of registered attendants to this symposium was 180 including 48 international guests from 14 Nations. The number of guests from each country are as follow: Australia (2), France (1), Germany (2), Israel (4), Italy (1), Japan (11), Korea (8), Malaysia (2), New Zealand (1), Philippines (1), ROC on Taiwan (132), The Netherlands (1), UK (3) and USA (10). Totally, 24 distinguished researchers were invited to the symposium and gave special lectures, arranged precedes the contributed oral presentations. Half of the invited speakers are from abroad. The are: Drs. Bernard J. Bailey and L.C. Ho from UK; Drs. Louis D. Albright, Gene A. Giacomelli, Merle H. Jensen, David R. Mears and K.C. Ting from USA; Drs. Hideo Ikeda, Toyoki Kozai and Tadashi Takakura from Japan; Dr. Ido Seginer from Israel and Dr. Hyo Guen Park from South Korea. Most of the full papers of the invited speakers are reflected in this volume of Acta Horticulturae. A post-symposium tour was organized for overseas participants. In the one-day tour, 52 attendants visited the Dai’s gold mushroom factory and the plant factory of young Phalaenopsis production of Sunrise Corp. in the morning and visited greenhouses of Taiwan Flower Biotech. Corp. and Taiwan Sugar Corp. in the afternoon. This symposium was sponsored by the Commission for Protected Cultivation and the Commission for Engineering of the ISHS as one of their joint activitie, the Chinese Society for Horticultural Science and the Chinese Institute of Agricultural Machinery as one of their special activities. Sincere appreciation and cordial thanks are extended to all those who participated in this symposium and all those who helped in the preparations for the Symposium. Our deepest appreciation is given to Dr. Sen-Fuh Chang, Dr. Y.S. Chow, Dr. Din-Sue Fon, Dr. Kuo-Hsiung Chen, Dr. Suming Chen, Dr. Iou-Zen Chen, Dr. Richie Chen, Dr. Junne-Jih Chen, Dr. Pao-Chuan Chen, Dr. Ta-Te Lin, Dr. Tsai-Yih Wang, Dr. Gang-Jhy Wu, Dr. Chung-Kee Yeh, Dr. Hsin-Fu Yen and many other members of the organizing committee and staff. Financial support for this symposium was received from the National Science Council, Ministry of Education, Council of Agriculture of Taiwan, ROC, Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute, Rural Development Foundation and other public and private organizations are gratefully acknowledged.
Wei Fang
Sen-Fuh Chang
Fu-Ming Lu
Tzay-Fa Sheen
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