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Hector L. Fajardo
Gold King Farm Systems & Garden Center
13-14 January 2006
BSU Closed Gym, La Trinidad, Benguet
The Greenhouse Industry
• Mixture of small, family-run tunnels to some 1000 to 4000 sqm units for cut flower, vegetable and others.
Few corporation-run using state of art technology.
• Dramatic yield increases for tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers during past 7-8 years.
• Leading greenhouse vegetables: tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce, peppers and culinary herbs such as basil,
sage, and rosemary.
• Increasing demand worldwide for organically-grown and pesticide-free early produce
• Bag culture has become the preferred method because it is easy to establish and manage
• In bag culture, pants are grown in a soilless medium contained I lay-flat or upright p-e
bags andfed with liquid fertilizer through drip irrigation lines.
• Media can be peat/vermiculite, sawdust, rockwool, rice hulls, pine bark, peanut hulls.
• Adopting bag culture will require specially formulated potting mixes or mix their own.