Under cover crops in the Suotheast of Spain
Abstract
In Spain, more than 62.000 hectares are cultivated in controlled environment, under determined covers. Two thirds of them are located in Andalucía, and more of the forth part, in the Southeast of the Iberia Peninsula. In the south-eastern area, delimited by the coincidence of the isolines (isohyets of the 400mm per year and isotherm of 16oC of annual media temperature) and the Medi- terranean coastline, there is a big amount of structures covered with plastics and nets for intensive crops in the areas of Eastern Almeria-Low Almanzora, Lorca and Guadalentin Valley, Cartagena Field-Sea Minor, Southern Alicante-Low Vega, etc. The technological advances applied to the irrigation and the natural cycle of the plant, with an extent in the calendars to present the product in the period with the most demanding. The interest of this intensive agriculture of greenhouses, nets and padded, lie in its higher productivity, uses and final price of the product.Downloads
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