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http://dx.doi.org/10.12791/KSBEC.2017.26.4.301

Calculation of Crop Loads for Structural Design of Greenhouse  

Na, Wook-Ho (Dept. of Agricultural Eng., Kyungpook National Univ.)
Lee, Jong-Won (Institute Agricultural Science & Technology, Kyungpook National University)
Rasheed, Adnan (Dept. of Agricultural Eng., Kyungpook National Univ.)
Kwak, Cheul-Soon (Dept. of Agricultural Eng., Kyungpook National Univ.)
Lee, Si-Young (Dept. of Agricultural Engg., National Academy of Agricultural Science, RDA)
Yoon, Yong-Cheol (Dept. of Agricultural Eng., Gyeongsang National Univ. (Institute of Agriculture and Life Science))
Lee, Hyun-Woo (Dept. of Agricultural Eng., Kyungpook National Univ.)
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Journal of Bio-Environment Control / v.26, no.4, 2017 , pp. 301-309 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study was conducted to provide basic data needed to calculate the crop loads for the greenhouse design. Four countries' crop loads for greenhouse structures were compared and the crop loads were measured directly and analyzed for various greenhouse crops, including tomato, strawberry, cucumber, and eggplant. According to the analysis results of four country's standards for the design crop loads, it was judged that the new design crop loads suit for greenhouse crops in our country should be suggested because our standards just used the design crop loads of other countries. The maximum crop loads per plant of tomato, cucumber, eggplant, and strawberry were 3.9, 0.75, 1.9 and $2.1kgf{\cdot}plant^{-1}$, respectively. The crop load per unit area of tomato was $8.5kgf{\cdot}m^{-2}$, which was much greater than the cucumber and eggplant's crop load of 2.1 and $2.4kgf{\cdot}m^{-2}$ respectively. The crop loads of tomato and cucumber, suggested by the greenhouse structure design standard of Korea, is $15kgf{\cdot}m^{-2}$, which is far greater than the values suggested by this research. It was judged that this was because our standard just used the Dutch standard, our crop load standard should be reviewed considering this difference. The crop load of strawberry, including the growing bed, was $21.0kgf{\cdot}m^{-2}$, which was much greater than the crop load in the Dutch standard.
Keywords
design standards; cultivated crop; planting density; load measurements;
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