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Abstract
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Take the horticulture development in many areas, it evolves through a number of stages consist on agrarianism or the so-called farming reform was the starting point, in which producers were granted land ownership so that they could do planting in their own farm. Industrial engineering has been applied in many industrial fields but this paper explores its applications in horticulture and plant breeding. Horticulture relates to man's livelihood but usually suffers as a weak sector in economics and attentions to this filed are regained as food safety, therefore, this paper addresses an analogy between industrial engineering and horticulture production to demonstrate that industrial engineering can adapt to horticulture. In such system, low-input production, organic production and sustainable agriculture could be regarded in a new way. In particular, enterprise resource planning system can be implemented in farming, thus our short-term target is to transform traditional farms to modern ones to produce safe products. The enterprise resource planning system could be applied on plant breeding process to breed new genetically improved veracities effectively. The finaltargets are to provide safe products and to increase farmers’ income as well as preparing new job opportunities which are expected to be created in modern farms.
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