Controlled environment agriculture in Oman: Facts and mechanization potentials

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Agriculture 69%
• Capsicum 43%
• Controlled Environment 83%
• Cucumis sativus 100%
• Cucurbitaceae 46%
• Farmers 34%
• Fragaria 45%
• Government Programs 46%
• Growth 15%
• Hot Temperature 23%
• Hydroponics 59%
• Light 21%
• Lycopersicon esculentum 83%
• Oman 87%
• Paintings 40%
• polycarbonate 41%
• Polyethylene 34%
• Population 11%
• Poultry 36%
• Rubus 45%
• Saline Waters 44%
• Soil 32%
• Temperature 21%
• Vegetables 29%
• Ventilation 26%
• Water 19%
• Weather 37%

Agriculture & Biology

• agriculture 44%
• Capsicum 6%
• cladding 7%
• coolers 5%
• crops 10%
• cucumbers 9%
• desalination 6%
• fans (equipment) 5%
• greenhouses 42%
• growth chambers 5%
• hydroponics 5%
• insulating materials 5%
• land productivity 7%
• light transmission 6%
• mechanization 72%
• melons 5%
• natural ventilation 7%
• Oman 77%
• polyethylene film 6%
• poultry production 5%
• raspberries 6%
• saline water 5%
• solar drying 6%
• subsidies 5%
• tomatoes 7%
• vegetable crops 5%

Engineering & Materials Science

• Agriculture 66%
• Crops 28%
• Curbs 6%
• Desalination 5%
• Greenhouses 72%
• Light transmission 6%
• Machinery 9%
• Mechanization 77%
• Painting 5%
• Polycarbonates 6%
• Polyethylenes 5%
• Poultry 7%
• Saline water 6%
• Thermal insulation 5%
• Vegetables 6%