This chapter describes how electric current is the main electrotechnological working tool in crop farming. It can initiate the plant growth and development or it can suppress, damage and destroy them. The stimulating electrotechnology example involves the electrical stimulation of ligneous plants allowing grafting survivability and growth. Alternatively, the suppressing and damaging current influence is vividly illustrated by the electro-impulse of sunflower and tobacco plants for pre-harvest processing. The demonstrative example of plants' electric destruction is weeds control using electro-impulse technology. The electrotechnologies effect on nature with key points' of usage and issues, alongside their technological and economic efficiency benefits are considered in the chapter.

The use of planting material with a root-balled tree system is one of the promising directions for creating artificial plantations. It is associated with radical changes in the cultivation of planting material and significant changes in the forest crops production technology [1]. The technology of widespread, woody plants year-round cultivation in the artificial environment can be implemented by using small-sized forms of cultivation structures - irradiation chambers and cabinet units, grow boxes, phytotrons, etc. In this case, the main technological operation is the light regime necessary for plants: with the radiation spectrum necessary for their development and growth, with the required intensity and irradiation regime. The results of photobiological studies on the qualitative indicators of woody plants grown in phytotron conditions under irradiation by radiation with different proportions in the blue-red and blue-green-red ranges of the photosynthetically active radiation zones are presented. The photosynthetically active radiation spectral variants, providing the highest or extremely close to it productivity of the indicated crops, were established. The complex and ambiguous nature of the photosynthetically active radiation main spectral ranges influence on the photoenergy and photoregulatory processes in plants, which ensure their productivity, is indicated, which makes it impossible to determine the general unified requirements for the artificial irradiation optimal parameters for growing plants.

The work contains the results of research carried out in 2015…2017, the seeds pre-sowing treatment methods influence in the alternating voltage electric field with the intensity of 8 kV/cm with an exposure of 60 seconds, by a Zerebra Agro growth regulator with an aqueous solution of 100 ml/1 liter of water. The decrease in the period from sowing to germination by 1 day, the decrease in the duration of the germination phase - basket formation by 3…5 days in the NK Neoma hybrid, by 1 day in the LG 5550 hybrid, by 2 days in the EU Petunia hybrid was established. The duration of the basket formation phase - flowering in the NK Neoma hybrid increased significantly in the EU Petunia hybrid by 6…7 days, not significantly in the LG 5550 hybrid by 1 day. The flowering-maturation phase lasted 51…56 days for the NK Neoma hybrid, 49…52 days for the LG 5550 hybrid, and 42…46 days for the EU Petunia hybrid. The duration of the germination-maturation phase in the NK Neoma hybrid increased by 2…3 days, in the LG 5550 hybrid by 2…3 days.

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