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| Establishment of Vegetable Coconut Coir Cultivation System under Extreme Environment in Torrid Islands Region of China |
| ZHOU Ming, LIU Ming-chi, JIANG Li-gang, XU Yong* |
| Vegetable Research Center, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Beijing 100097, China |
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Abstract We studied and established a vegetable coconut coir cultivation system fit for torrid island regions of our country under extreme environment, such as high temperature, high humidity, strong illumination, varied typhoon, water and soil shortage, etc. The whole system consists of three subsystems: environment control system mainly including anti-typhoon, anti-solarization, anti-rainstorm and anti-corrosion greenhouse, fertilizer and water supplying system and coconut coir planting system. It has an obvious effect on anti-typhoon, anti-solarization and anti-rainstorm, but a poor performance on controlling of temperature and humidity. Comparing to vegetable plot in these islands, suitable cultivated vegetable species and their yields are significantly increased. The water saving rate has reached over 70 %.
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Received: 03 February 2010
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Corresponding Authors:
XU Yong
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