Journal of Taiwan Agricultural Research

Author:Han-Wei Chen, Ting-Syuan Kao, Ling-Chu Lee, and Ching-Shan Tseng*

Abstract:

    The occurrence of disasters under climate change scenario was unpredictable and often complex, such as the low temperature of less than 10℃ occurred in Taiwan at the beginning of 2016, which caused very serious economic loss to agriculture. A need for stress simulation test platforms with functions of multiple meteorological environments that could provide accurate and repeatable test data then verifying the effectiveness of disaster prevention technology was studied. Such a simulation test platform is required for research on crop temperature adversity in response to climate change. The purpose of this study was to understand the feasibility and requirements about the simulation test platform of temperature adversity for crops, so as to prepare a future operational management plan for this platform. The methodology of this research included questionnaires, interviewing the specialists and conducting operational workshops with a brainstorming approaches. With that, it can get together all the professional opinions from experts of every quantified and qualified cross-domains. This research found that the users consider very much about the distance to the testing site, and whether they can always observe the test plants at any time. In the interview with specialists, they thought that through the ways in strengthening monitoring equipments and the mutual cooperation as well as the entrust tests, they can ignore the inconveniences of distance. On needs of temperature experiments, the statistics of questionnaires and the results derived from discussions of workshops lead to the needs of high level temperature equipment. The specialists also pointed out that high level temperature equipment of research would be the main direction in the future. In the topic of rental period, we found that most greenhouses owners wish to lease out their greenhouses by 4–6 months’ terms; those who without greenhouses prefer a longer lease term. Concluding from the results of this study, it will serve as a reference for us to adjust our directions for platform’s developments and future research subjects in its practical development and operation.

Key words:Temperature adversity, Operation plan, Questionnaires survey

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