Mission statements
The plant factory and intelligent greenhouse have a completely different agricultural production strategy from the traditional arable agriculture. Hence, it is not easy to understand the significance of agricultural production in plant factory and intelligent greenhouse for researchers with different backgrounds, farmers, consumers, and government. In addition, plant factory and intelligent greenhouse mostly have a strong motivation of commercial success as an industrial activity. Our vision is to establish a global community on plant factory and intelligent greenhouse, in which we will conduct an intensive study and discussion to enhance the unique value of plant factory and intelligent greenhouse through industry-academia-government collaboration and ensure the stable, high quality and high value-added food supply to human being. These require us to:
- Improve understanding of the uniqueness of agricultural production including facilities, instrumentations, energy and water use in plant factory and intelligent greenhouse.
- Improve understanding of plant's environmental response under artificial growing conditions, which must be investigated from the point of view of plant physiology and ecology.
- Improve understanding of the importance of mechanization and automation to improve labor productivity in plant factory and intelligent greenhouse.
- Improve understanding of the effectiveness of computing and modeling to find a way to increase productivity in plant factory and intelligent greenhouse.
- Improve understanding of the availability of cutting-edge information technologies, i.e. artificial intelligence and bioinformatics, in plant factory and intelligent greenhouse.