Name of School: Clarence Fitzroy Bryant College

Name of Teacher: Livingston Generlette

Course: Agriculture Science Technology
Subject: Design Studio
Research Ideology: Understand the origin of green/shade houses
 The reason(s) for its design
 Discuss the pros and or cons of green houses
 List and explain the environmental impacts of Green Houses.
Due Date: 28st/11/2022 28stNovember 2022.
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Research on the greenhouse origins, fundamental structure, the advantages and disadvantages
of its operation and lastly the effects it produces in relation to the environment and the
environmental impact it has.
 Introduction

Before one can learn the history of the green house you first have to understand what really is a
green house so let me elaborate; A green house is a structure building made with walls, roof and
sometimes heated mats are used as flooring, the building materials are predominantly transparent
for the walls and floor and this is for mostly the interior of the shade house constantly being
exposed to sunlight but the temperature inside is much warmer compared to the temperature that
is in the outside environment, due to the transparent materials used for the walls and roofs are
constantly being used for protecting the crops sewed in the soil from experiencing direct radiation
from the sun light rays.

The shade house is a unique invention but the first record of a control environment system for crops
was back in AD 14-37 in Roman. The first artificial heated green house was made by the Koreas
Joseon dynasty in the 1450s where the heating system was building under the floor and they also
added windows to simulate the natural environment and even true to create a perfect or close to
perfect ideal environment for growing crops, to create the ideal lighting and enough light to pass
through the structure for optimum sunlight to increase the rate of photosynthesis in the plants which
would further increase yield per unit. In the 17 th century a new concept of the green house was
emerging from the England and the Netherlands, the first stove heated green house was back in the
United Kingdom was created at Chelsea Physic Garden in 1681 over the course of the years going
by new versions of the green house have been introduce due to technology have improved for
producing steady, transparent glass, materials and even improved and new initiative construction
techniques for the development of these houses a new materials was being introduced in the 1960s
called polyethylene film and was more available in larger quantity than ever before.

Overall Green houses are a great integrated invention for farming systems, it also comes with its
draw backs with every great invention in life there is advantages and disadvantages in acquiring and
maintaining these systems such as fundamental materials needed for the building and construction
of the shade house can be quite expensive, with a single shade house costing up to Two Hundred
Thousand dollars just for the construction of the building. Due to the Green house being an
integrated technology invention cropping system utilizing machinery for its main fundamental
functions of the system its overall output of electricity and water usage would increase by additional
15% upon your current usage rate. This would eventually result in an immense power and water bill
affecting you’re your over profit margin rate so overall green houses can be an economical burden.
These economic challenges very begin when making purchases to buy the materials for the green
house polyester farming film allow estimated cost would be $3000 a roll, farm work of the structure
including plywood, galvanized steel and sheets deplenish your savings bank account by $20000.

The green house does have its own share of advantages serving as core inducements for someone
looking forward to acquiring a green house for farming and experimenting various innovative farming
techniques. These advantages then translate into being that the shade house hydroponics system
produce greater yields in comparison to traditional farming system, study have proven that a large
commercial farm can produce 2.7 million meals per year. With greater yields the typical farm proof
margin will increase extremely by 65% giving the farmer more economic leverage to consider starting
a second green house to maximize on proof. When utilizing a green house for planting you would
realize that the crops look much healthier and green lavish leaves, this is because planting in a shade
house gives you better control of the environment so you can provide the best possible living
conditions for your crops to grow and strive successful environmental factors that can be control by
then farmer are the lighten intensity the amount of air and also the amount of humility abled to
enter the shade house. Additionally, when planted in the hydroponics system would result in a 60%
increase in the rate of production where crops are ready to harvest at a much quicker period. This
happens because the plants are receiving their nutrients directly to the plant roots through the water
solution being used to feed the plants. Maintain and labor cost is drastically lower than traditional
farming system due to the fact irrigation with timers are being used to cut back on the amount of
item and labor it would wake to water your crops with hose or watering can. Study have shown that
crops grown in a hydroponics greenhouse system use less water than traditional farm system making
it more economically to own and operate than the traditional farms. Fruits and vegetables are
available all year around so as a farmer you will have some control over the supply and demand
compassion to your competitors resulting in providing crops even out of seasons. The crops wouldn’t
be easily affected by pest and diseases because the walls help prevent the entrance of pests from
coming into the green house to attack the crops and potentially killing and destroying all the crops
planted making the farmer achieve a loss in profits.

The environmental impacts of the greenhouse on the environment is trapping of heat air pollution
and green house gases going into the atmosphere destroying the o zone layer resulting in the change
of the climate and the environment getting much warmer and warmer causing deforestation by
natural causes such as wildfires spreading burning down all the trees in the forest resulting in mire
carbon dioxide going into the air destroying the o zone layer much quicker and also food supplies are
destroyed due to the crops die from the environment being so hot killing all the crops. To help
reduce the green house effects renewable energy sources are now being encourage to use instead of
using fossil fuel to power the system, solar panels are being used to produce and harness the suns
energy to use as energy to power the farm, the fossil fuel that was being burned contributed
tremendously in the output of green house gases entering the atmosphere and eliminating this
would decrease the amount of green house gases going into the atmosphere.

Overall the utilization of the green house is an amazing invention for the growing of crops and to
plant in even tho it has its own share of pros and cons where as in the start up of such a farm could
be expensive the purchasing of the materials are also expensive but the advantages do out wights
the disadvantages where greater yields, higher quality crops are being grown much faster harvest is
happening and less pest and diseases affecting the crops are also pros about planting inside of a
green house.
Citation:

28/1/99 page 773 19.5 ecology text book.

References:

Ecology individuals, population and communities

Michael Begon Department of environment and evolutionary biology The University of

Liverpool, United Kingdom

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