PLASTICULTURE '05

摘要

In her plenary talk at the 32nd National Agricultural Plastics Congress in Charleston,South Carolina in March 2005,Roberta Cook of University of California - Davis described the implications for plasticulture caused by the worldwide changes in food marketing.She pointed out that the greater focus on value-added,high quality products is changing fresh produce marketing and thus benefiting greenhouse vegetables.She noted that worldwide consumption of fruits and vegetables increased from 814 Mt in 1990 to 1350 Mt in 2004 with the per capita availability growing from 155 to 212 kg in this period.Much of this growth has been caused by the marked increase of production in China.