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Agro-Envronmental Technology Grant ProgramProjects by TopicNURSERY & GREENHOUSEColleen and Glenn Caffery, Leyden - "Green" Greenhouse Kit: Development of an Affordable, Easily Constructed, Energy Efficient Greenhouse for Massachusetts Growers". By applying advances in super-efficient home construction, an inexpensive energy efficient greenhouse will be demonstrated. It will be fabricated from readily available materials, and be designed for commercial plant production that uses no fossil fuels inputs. $7,465 - 2000 Coastal Growers Association, Inc., Westport - "Cooperative Opportunities for Wholesale Cut Flowers Markets". A cut flower field trial project will research production techniques, costs of production, and sales and marketing of 7 new varieties of cut flowers. $27,525 -1999 Pioneer Gardens, Deerfield - "Feasibility Study of a Geothermal Heating System with in a Commercial Greenhouse". Phase I will determine the feasibility of implementing a geothermal heating system for use in a commercial greenhouse as a supplemental heating source. With positive indications, Phase II will construct a small scale demonstration project in part of an existing greenhouse. $1,400 -2001 Ronald Smolowitz, Coonamessett Farm, East Falmouth - "Greenhouse Polyculture System". This project will demonstrate the commercial viability of available greenhouse growing systems for the production, holding and marketing of aquatic crops. $18,600 -1997 UMass, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, Amherst - "Commercial Soil-less Production of Rhododendrons For Export Marketing". This project is to develop a hydroponics production of rhododendrons in perlite or other soil-less media for export marketing of small rhododendron plants. Research will develop protocols for production facilities and timing of production cycles. $17,064 -2002 UMass, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, Amherst - "Assessing the Need to Pre-Adapt Woody Plant Roots for Successful Establishment in Wetland Landscapes". This study will provide producers of wetland plants with new information on best production practices and how to modify conventional production practices to produce wetland plants. $5,581 -1996 UMass, Department of Entomology, Amherst. "Training Poinsettia Growers in Use of Biological Controls". Establishes a cost share and training program to use biological controls in greenhouses. $13,495 -1996 UMass, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, Amherst - "Subirrigation for Watering, Fertilizing and Reducing Runoff in Massachusetts Greenhouses". This project will evaluate and promote the adoption of subirrigation as a method of irrigating greenhouse crops. $5050 -1996 |
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