page_title: Intensive farming in Almería
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Intensive farming in Almería / History
caption_attribution_description: Español: Campo de Almería, Vista Satelite Español: Campo de Almería, Vista Satelite
context_page_description: The intensive agriculture of the province of Almeria, Spain, is a model of agricultural exploitation of high technical and economic yield based on the rational use of water, sanding, use of plastic greenhouses, high technical training and high level of employment of Inputs, on the peculiar characteristics of the environment. The greenhouses are located between Motril and Almeria. Especially the area of El Ejido is well known to be an agricultural hotspot.
context_section_description: The first greenhouse was built in 1963 and the technique was extended by the Campo de Dalías or Poniente Almeriense and later by the Campo de Níjar, in the east. The use of polyethylene as a substitute for glass had already been tested in the Canary Islands and Catalonia before. The plastic was spread over wooden posts or metal structures and secured by wire. The transparent plastic intensifies the heat and maintains the humidity. This allows harvests to be harvested one month earlier than in the open field and more ahead than in other regions, starting harvesting in December and allowing the plant growth of the autumn-winter plantings until March, doubling and sometimes tripling the number of harvests.
caption: Campo de Dalías satellite image and its "plastic sea" formed by greenhouses.
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