Hothouses

Energy, economics and environment are three important factors for defining the behavior of agricultural production systems. In recent years, there has been a great increase in energy consumption in agriculture. This is due to continuous growth of population and development of new production technologies. Greenhouse production, as one of most intensive plant production system, is the most energy-consuming branch in agriculture. Producers are faced with high cost of operations involved in greenhouse production process. So, it is of great importance to define all energy inputs in greenhouse production, in order to find their optimal combination that would make this production more energy efficient.