Plant Factory and Intelligent Greenhouse Working Group

Chair: Prof. Hirokazu Fukuda

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai, Japan

JP Japan

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E-mail: fukuda@me.osakafu-u.ac.jp
Vice Chair: Dr. Esteban Jose Baeza Romero

Wageningen University and Research, Greenhouse Horticulture, The Netherlands  

NL Netherlands

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E-mail: ejbr@cajamar.com
Secretary: Dr. Kotaro Takayama

Ehime University, Japan

JP Japan

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E-mail: takayama.kotaro.mk@ehime-u.ac.jp
Member: Prof. Changhoo Chun

Research Institute of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, 08826, South Korea

KR Korea, Republic of

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E-mail: changhoo@snu.ac.kr
Member: Dr. Ryosuke Endo

Department of Environmental Sciences and Technology, Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai, Osaka 599-8531, Japan

JP Japan

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E-mail: endo@envi.osakafu-u.ac.jp
Member: Prof. Dongxian He

Key Laboratory Agricultural Engineering in Structure and Environment, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, China... read-more

CN China

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E-mail: hedx@cau.edu.cn
Member: Dr. Jong-seok Park

College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Chungnam National University, South Korea read-more

KR Korea, Republic of

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E-mail: jongseok@cnu.ac.kr
Member: Prof. Noriko Takahashi

Graduate School of Agriculture, Department of Food Production Science, Ehime University, Japan

JP Japan

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E-mail: takahashi.noriko.mm@ehime-u.ac.jp
Member: Prof. Eldert van Henten

Department of Plant Sciences, Wageningen University, The Netherlands

NL Netherlands

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E-mail: eldert.vanhenten@wur.nl

Mission

  1. Improve understanding of the uniqueness of agricultural production including facilities, instrumentations, energy and water use in plant factory and intelligent greenhouse.
  2. Improve understanding of plant's environmental response under artificial growing conditions, which must be investigated from the point of view of plant physiology and ecology.
  3. Improve understanding of the importance of mechanization and automation to improve labor productivity in plant factory and intelligent greenhouse.
  4. Improve understanding of the effectiveness of computing and modeling to find a way to increase productivity in plant factory and intelligent greenhouse.
  5. Improve understanding of the availability of cutting-edge information technologies, i.e. artificial intelligence and bioinformatics, in plant factory and intelligent greenhouse.

Objectives

The objective of this working group is to provide an open platform for researchers who are interested in the agricultural production of plant factory and intelligent greenhouse. And this working group aims to promote R&D, communication and education in this field by enhancing information sharing among the researchers, relevant professionals, and consumers and eventually promote the international standing of the CIGR's plant factory and intelligent greenhouse working group in the field. Furthermore, younger generation play an important role in such a new agricultural production in plant factory and intelligent greenhouse, therefore the younger generation initiated researches and communications are strongly encouraged.

Scope

By organizing workshops and seminars on plant factory and intelligent greenhouse, effective collaborative R&D among industry-academia-government must be accelerated. Furthermore, activity of younger generation researchers in this field would be enhanced.

  1. By publishing special issues in CIGR-Journal on plant factory and intelligent greenhouse, understanding of agricultural production in plant factory and intelligent greenhouse will be improved.
  2. By updating the working group website, prompt sharing of up-to-date knowledge in this field is ensured.
  3. Increase in the number of individual member associate with CIGR.

Activities

The plant factory and intelligent greenhouse (PFIG) working group is responsible for all the activities relating to plant factory and intelligent greenhouse in CIGR with close relationships with the existing TSs and WGs. The relevant TSs are TS II, TS III and TS VII. The TS II "Structure and Environment" put attention on traditional structure and environment for animal husbandry and cattle housing (our PFIG working group can provide a specific information on plant factory and intelligent greenhouse), the TS III provides technology and equipment for wide-range of plant production (our PFIG working group can promote the plant production under artificially controlled environment), the TS VII covers all the information technology (our PFIG working group intensively deals with application and implementation of information technology to plant factory and intelligent greenhouse). The chairs and the key steering committee members will create and activate a new PFIG working group to accomplish the above mentioned purposes through the following activities:

  1. Workshops/Seminars: The events will be held every two years, covering the main trends and new developments in the field worldwide. Internationally prominent experts in the field will be invited as invited speakers. Some sessions might be organized by younger generation researchers. Generally, the events will be held in the form of on-site meetings.
  2. Website: The website of PFIG working group will be created on the web server of the research center for high-technology greenhouse plant production in Ehime University (JAPAN) and linked to the main CIGR website. The PFIG working group website consist of R&D trends, technical reports, events, networks, information on trainings and courses, case studies, links to relevant websites.
  3. Working group activities: Regular group meeting is conducted by skype and email to discuss the action plan of working group and share the latest information.
  4. Administration support for the development of outreach materials/activities, partnerships and collaborations.