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Improved Ventilation of Open Top Greenhouses

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Pages 1089-1090 | Published online: 13 Mar 2012
 

Abstract

Plant injury caused by air pollutants is a well recognized effect causing economic losses totalling millions of dollars. Farm crops, forest species, and ornamentals are all affected depending upon kind of plant and degree of exposure. Benedict1 estimated the minimum annual agricultural losses in the U. S. to be $132 million in 1969-1971. Millecan2 estimated California crop losses caused by air pollutants to be at least $25 million in 1972. Recent studies by Brewer3 in which conventional greenhouses were placed in the field over cotton gave results showing yields were reduced by 10-30% in the San Joaquin valley where significant levels of photochemical smog occur. However, these estimates of losses represent little more than educated guesses because the procedures available for obtaining the information are so imprecise.

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