Vegetable Production in PFALs: Control of Micro-Environmental Factors, Principal Components and Automated Systems

Filippos Bantis (), Ioanna Chatzigeorgiou, Michail Sismanis, Georgios K. Ntinas and Athanasios Koukounaras
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Filippos Bantis: Department of Agriculture, University of Patras, 30200 Messolonghi, Greece
Ioanna Chatzigeorgiou: Institute of Plant Breeding and Genetic Resources, Hellenic Agricultural Organization DIMITRA (ELGO-Dimitra), 57001 Thermi, Greece
Michail Sismanis: Green Blue Modern Solutions P.C., 55534 Thessaloniki, Greece
Georgios K. Ntinas: Institute of Plant Breeding and Genetic Resources, Hellenic Agricultural Organization DIMITRA (ELGO-Dimitra), 57001 Thermi, Greece
Athanasios Koukounaras: Department of Horticulture, Aristotle University, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece

Agriculture, 2024, vol. 14, issue 4, 1-13

Abstract: Plant factories with artificial lighting (PFALs) are indoor crop production systems aiming at the growth of high-value products in terms of yield and quality, while maximizing resource use efficiency. The emergence of PFALs opened a new world for crop production and offered an option to tackle problems related to climate change, land availability, and urban/peri-urban farming. This was made possible upon major technological advancements and extensive research in the field of controlled environment agriculture, which paved the way for the establishment of such cost-efficient and climate-unaffected modules of vegetable and other crops’ production. In the present review, we have examined the recent research achievements regarding the micro-environmental factors, the principal components, as well as the automated systems used for plant production in PFALs. Ultimately, we provide the reader with a number of future perspectives that can be considered for indoors cultivation in the following years.

Keywords: plant factory with artificial lighting; growth chamber; vertical farming; soilless cultivation systems; light quality; IoT systems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q1 Q10 Q11 Q12 Q13 Q14 Q15 Q16 Q17 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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