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Labor-Saving Technology For Setting Out Nets in The Cultivation of Cut Flowers

This document describes a labor-saving technique for setting up flower nets used in cut flower cultivation. The technique uses plastic holders cut into short pieces that are placed on thin wooden boards with notches. S-shaped hooks made from wire are used to attach the net to poles fixed into the ground along rows. This method takes only about 4 minutes for a 14 meter row, compared to 12 minutes using conventional techniques. It requires fewer materials and less labor, as only one worker is needed instead of two.

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Labor-Saving Technology For Setting Out Nets in The Cultivation of Cut Flowers

This document describes a labor-saving technique for setting up flower nets used in cut flower cultivation. The technique uses plastic holders cut into short pieces that are placed on thin wooden boards with notches. S-shaped hooks made from wire are used to attach the net to poles fixed into the ground along rows. This method takes only about 4 minutes for a 14 meter row, compared to 12 minutes using conventional techniques. It requires fewer materials and less labor, as only one worker is needed instead of two.

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Cooperating agency for this topic:
FFTC: An international information center for
small-scale farmers in Asia
Food and Fertilizer Technology Center (FFTC)
14 Wenchow St., Taipei, Taiwan ROC
Tel.: (886 2) 2362 6239 Fax: (886 2) 2362 0478
E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.fftc.agnet.org
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N THE CULTIVATION of cut flowers, nets are usually
set out to support the flowers (Fig. 1). This is done in
board, to hold firm the meshes of the flower net (Fig. 3).
Two plastic holders were fixed vertically with screws to
each board. A board was then put at each end of the
row of flowers, held in place by the plastic holders,
which fitted inside strong plastic poles (Fig. 4).
Then S-shaped hooks were made from strong
galvanized No. 16 wire (Fig. 5). The curves of the hook
were designed to fit round the pole (Fig. 6) , and hold
the net firm on either side (Fig. 7).
A long net was stretched tightly between the
boards at either end of the row. Poles were fixed into
the ground at intervals at each side of the row. The S-
shaped hooks were used to fix the net to the poles at
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order to prevent the flowers from lodging and to
improve their quality. However, the average age of
flower growers in many Asian countries is increasing.
The cultivation of cut flowers needs to be made a
lighter work, with a lower labor input.
This leaflet describes a labor-saving way to set
out flower nets. It has been used successfully for the
cultivation of gentians for several years in Japan.
A plastic holder was cut into short pieces. Each
piece was the same size as the width of a thin wooden
board (Fig. 2). Notches were cut along the top of the
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both sides, so the net was tightly stretched over the row
(see Fig. 8).
Also, in the conventional method, each end of the
net has to be strengthened by weaving it with a
polythene cord reinforced with fishing line. Then each
end has to be tied tightly with pieces of string to stretch
the net as tightly as possible. This time-consuming
work does not need to be done when the S-shaped
hooks are used.
The working time required to set out flower nets
over a bed 14 m in length, using the plastic holders and
S-shaped hooks, is only about four minutes. This is
about one-third of the working time required for the
conventional method.
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This is not an expensive technology, since most of
the items are made by the growers themselves. Using
this method in a field of 0.1 ha (50 x 20 m
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pieces of plastic holder, and 1,400 S-shaped hooks. A
great advantage is that only one worker is needed,
whereas, the conventional method of setting out and
stretching the nets needs two people.

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