Alternate cultivation technologies for sustainable production of horticultural crops

Growing population and climate change, coupled with diminishing land and water resources, can pose a threat to horticultural crop production through the use of conventional methods.
The exploitation of alternative production technologies can contribute to real solutions for these challenges.
The adverse effects of using inorganic inputs and the low efficiency of inputs insist on adopting alternate technologies.
To ensure optimum production of horticultural crops, it is essential to consider environment-independent cultivation, precise resource application, vertical space utilization, soilless cultivation, the introduction of new crops and tolerant cultivars, organic resource utilization, the use of new and renewable energy sources, artificial light usage for increasing production efficiency, automation in plant monitoring, exploitation of horticulture in urban and peri-urban areas, and the use of drones and sensors for disease identification and management.
The technological gap between scientists and farmers needs to be reduced and there is a need to increase the number of studies to standardize these technologies in different horticultural crops.

EHC2024: International Symposium on Robotics, Mechanization and Smart Horticulture

U. Das, R. Benny, A. Petrescu

alternative approaches, input use efficiency, productivity, yield enhancement

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.2025.1433.18