PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cultivation system highly efficiently water culturing crops such as vegetables and flowering plants, as protected horticulture of a cultivation bench circulating type, and to provide a cultivation apparatus.SOLUTION: This cultivation system comprises steps of raising crops while advancing a cultivation bench 1 on a broad gauge rail 2 which is placed from an entrance line (A) toward an exit line B, in a condition of tying in a row through making the short side direction of the cultivation bench parallel to a moving line, harvesting crops on the cultivation bench at the exit line, 90 degree horizontal rotating the empty cultivation bench so as to make the long side direction of the cultivation bench parallel to the moving line, and advancing the cultivation bench on a narrow gauge rail 5 which is placed lowering the back, on the inside of the broad gauge rail so as to pass under a cultivation bench line in an outward trip followed by returning to the entrance line.COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT【課題】栽培ベンチ循環方式の施設園芸農業として野菜や花卉類などの作物を高効率に水耕栽培等する栽培システム、および栽培装置を提供する。【解決手段】栽培ベンチを、入り口ラインから出口ラインに向かって敷設した広軌レール上を、同栽培ベンチの短手方向を移動線と平行な向きにして数珠繋ぎ状態に前進させつつ作物の育成を行い、出口ラインにおいて栽培ベンチ上の作物の収穫を行い、空になった栽培ベンチは90度水平回転させて同栽培ベンチの長手方向を移動線と平行な向きにし、往路の栽培ベンチ列の下を潜れるように広軌レールの内側に背を低く敷設した狭軌レール上を前進させて入り口ラインへ戻すステップを含むことなどを特徴とする。【選択図】図1
