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CEO and Greenhouse Technical Director at CFGET
Greenhouse advice should begin with the site, crop and operating reality.
Coraline Liao has worked in the greenhouse industry for more than 15 years. She helps growers, project owners and buyers turn a rough idea into a scope that can be designed, priced and checked.
- Based in Chengdu, Sichuan, China
- More than 13 years with CFGET
- Commercial greenhouse planning and technical communication
About Coraline
Coraline works across greenhouse structure, climate control, ventilation, cooling, shading, irrigation and fertigation, and crop production systems. Her role is often most useful before a buyer asks for a final quotation. At that stage, a missing water analysis, an undefined growing method or an unclear installation boundary can change the whole project.
She prefers to start with ordinary questions: Where will the greenhouse be built? What crop and production season matter? What happens during the hottest week? Who will maintain the filters and dosing equipment? Which work belongs to the supplier, and which work will be completed locally?
That practical approach also shapes the articles she writes and reviews for CFGET. A technical guide should tell the reader what to inspect, what to measure, what to ask a supplier for and where a general answer stops being reliable.
- Current work
- CEO and Greenhouse Technical Director, CFGET
- Industry experience
- More than 15 years in greenhouse projects and technical support
- Main subjects
- Structures, climate systems, irrigation, fertigation, growing systems and project scope
- Working base
- Chengdu, Sichuan, China, with support for international projects
How she reviews a greenhouse guide
The review begins with the decision the reader is trying to make. It then checks whether the article gives enough context to make that decision without pretending one specification works everywhere.
Separate facts from assumptions
Site data, drawings, test results and footage are treated as evidence. Crop yield, investment return and operating performance are not inferred when the data is missing.
Keep the systems connected
Structure, covering, ventilation, cooling, irrigation and controls are checked as parts of one operating system, not as isolated products.
State the boundary conditions
Advice is tied to climate, crop stage, growing method, water quality and operator capacity. A value from one region is not presented as a global rule.
Leave the buyer with a next step
Useful guides end with a measurement, checklist, supplier question or project input that the reader can act on.
First-hand greenhouse work
CFGET’s Chengdu blueberry greenhouse gives Coraline and the technical team a working site for observing container production, root-zone management, irrigation hardware, crop condition and daily operating routines.
Articles using this material identify what can be seen or heard in the footage. Agronomic interpretation is labelled separately, and figures such as area, cultivar, yield, temperature and investment are not guessed.
- Video observations use recorded time codes.
- CFGET project notes are identified as first-hand observations.
- University, government and research sources support technical claims.
- Unconfirmed project data remains unconfirmed.
Continuing professional development
Greenhouse horticulture and business study
Coraline’s LinkedIn profile records ongoing greenhouse horticulture study related to Wageningen University & Research, alongside business study through an Alberta MBA program. She uses that continuing study to test technical assumptions and to look at greenhouse decisions from both an operating and an investment perspective.
Selected guides
These articles show the review approach in practice. Each one answers a different decision in the blueberry greenhouse journey.
Project decision
Is commercial blueberry greenhouse production viable?
A framework for comparing market timing, climate risk, water, labor and technical demands before choosing protected production.
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Production system
Blueberry greenhouse, rain shelter or open field?
A practical comparison of weather protection, root-zone control, capital cost and management complexity.
Read the guide
Supplier scope
Blueberry greenhouse requirements and RFQ checklist
The site information, water data, structural basis and supplier answers a buyer should collect before ordering.
Read the guide
Scope and review boundaries
Coraline’s articles help readers frame a project and check a supplier’s scope. They do not replace the professionals responsible for the final site design.
- A licensed local engineer should confirm structural loads, foundations and code compliance.
- Crop-specific nutrition and plant health decisions need local agronomic oversight and current test data.
- Water treatment and irrigation design should be based on water analysis, crop demand and the actual layout.
Prepare the project facts before requesting a design
Send the location, crop, area, target season, growing method, available water analysis, climate concern, required systems and installation scope.
