Greenhouse Environment

Salads Production

Viticulture

Micropropagation

Visit to Pershore College and Chipping Campden Research Centre

14 July 2006 - Click here for details in Word format

Horticultural Engineering Technical Group

An extensive and diverse range of crops is the one outstanding feature which sets aside Horticulture as a landbased activity - scores of edible (mainly salad) crops, even greater numbers of nursery-stock and ornamentals species, top fruit, soft fruit and edible fungi highlight commercial horticulture's principal categories.

Historically, commercial horticulture has been associated with semi-intensive market gardening of a largely labour-intensive nature but, certainly by the middle of the 20th C, the industry, worldwide, began to undergo a major change; not only in the more advanced economies of NW Europe and N America but also in those less advanced ones which happen to possess intrinsic advantages such as favourable climatic conditions and low production costs.

A key element central to this whole process of change, underpinned by substantial investment and a general move into greater specialisation, has been the ongoing application of engineering technology.

Aims of the HETG

• To promote Horticultural Engineering within the wider Engineering Profession.
• To make the Horticultural Industry more aware of the importance of engineering to its viability and future development.
• To improve communications within Horticultural Engineering.
• To help Horticultural Engineers in the development their careers.
• To promote Horticultural Engineering as a worthwhile and rewarding career.

In time, the HETG Website will contain:

• Committee Members – contact info. listed.
• Events Diary.
• R&D Database.

HETG Committee Members

Top & Soft Fruit Production

Ornamentals Production

Nursery Stock
Production

Mushroom Production