Identifying Opportunities to Promote Water Treatment Practices among Nursery and Greenhouse Growers

Sustainable Production Practices Adopted by Greenhouse and Nursery Plant Growers

Given recent consumer and market interest in more sustainable products and business practices, researchers conducted a nationwide survey of greenhouse and nursery crop growers to determine the current state of the industry in terms of sustainability. Growers were asked about the importance of sustainability, their views of state environmental regulations, sustainable practices in place and ones...

Nursery Practices

identifying successor development practices to promote transgenerational entrepreneurship in iranian family firms

corporate entrepreneurship is one the key factors for long term success of family firms. therefore, continuing the entrepreneurial behaviors in the following generations of the family firm, which is called transgenerational entrepreneurship, is of paramount importance. among different factors, the successor has a key role in the development of entrepreneurship in the firm. so, the family firm m...

Occupational asthma in greenhouse flower and ornamental plant growers.

The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of occupational asthma and sensitization to workplace allergens in greenhouse flower and/or ornamental plant growers. A random sample of 40 growers who cultivated such crops and had participated in the European Farmers' Study was selected for a cross-sectional study that included (1) greenhouse characteristics and air contaminants (dus...

Agricultural opportunities to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.

Agriculture is a source for three primary greenhouse gases (GHGs): CO(2), CH(4), and N(2)O. It can also be a sink for CO(2) through C sequestration into biomass products and soil organic matter. We summarized the literature on GHG emissions and C sequestration, providing a perspective on how agriculture can reduce its GHG burden and how it can help to mitigate GHG emissions through conservation...