Taiwan farmers get rich by: LED lighting planting health

In the vicinity of Taipei downtown arena, Nanjing Road, has a fifty or sixty square meters of street stores, called "Farmer king". On the window, "planting health, harvest happiness" eight characters.

Look carefully, a window, with soilless cultivation of vegetables LED light irradiation, the foam box neatly in the head of lettuce seedlings, seedling, looks very special. Walked into the store, half refrigerated cabinet, all kinds of organic vegetables grown full of cabinets, a pack of 250 grams of lettuce prices will be 50 NT dollars; the other half of the store, is now playing business lettuce juice, according to the health needs of customers store collocation, organic vegetable juice out of the most suitable for the customers.

Vegetables and fruit health and health

At that time, it is time after dinner, go out for a walk in Taipei, to buy a cup of fruit and vegetable juice is playing while walking, both thirst and health.

Store sales of fruit and vegetable juice can now play, on-demand deployment, with lemon and orange with lettuce, add cabbage, green vegetables and a grapefruit, apple and Kyoto kyona...... The efficacy of different collocation methods. The clerk said, can help digestion, can beauty, also can eliminate the physical pressure.

Is it really that magic? Vitamin that is for sure, and fresh fruits and vegetables and drink in the mouth, natural food is sweet, no chemical drinks cannot compare.

The boss looks black Quanyou Wei Zhuang, a pair of black eyes look very smart.

He is very talkative, but also willing to share, breath, said, "Farmer king" history.

Born in the early years of the Republic of Taiwan in the countryside of the Arab League, a simple life, hard work. Taiwan earthquake, typhoon weather. A night of natural disasters and pests, crop losses, almost The whole army was wiped out.

Uncle a-sheng's grandson, see the daily work over hard life, quietly standing in the field, the heart of sadness, mind to natural disasters and filled with a thousand regrets, to improve the agricultural pest irresistible desire, "God unreliable! We can't rely on the weather ".

Wei Quanyou, the founder of Taiwan tea chain thriving, there are additives for today drinks, he often feel confused, "why can't replace the additives" with natural ingredients? He wanted to change, to create a more natural, healthy drink. However, as for the development of health drinks too many to count bottlenecks encountered, he grows weary, had the idea of giving up, leave the tea industry.

In a visit to Holland, Wei Quanyou and his grandson met, different backgrounds but the same idea of the two people, the success of the birth of the birth of the brand Farmer (King).

Quality and quantity of soilless culture

"The good thing about plant factories is that farmers don't have to eat any more. Wei Quanyou said that in recent years, climate extremes, the global food production crisis, how to stabilize crop yields, has become a topic of study. "The plant factory" approach is to replace LED lighting illumination, the plants "please" into the room, not only to avoid the adverse effects of climate on plant, but also in the artificial control of plant, to provide a good growth environment, promote its production.

In the "factory", light, humidity, carbon dioxide concentration, soil organic nutrients, are controlled by the computer, in this "digital" growth environment, human beings can year-round, there are plans to produce all kinds of vegetable crops, time, quality and yield are fixed, as the general industrial factory.

The indoor cultivation is also a good thing, is to avoid the infestation of pests and diseases, in the process of plant growth without the use of pesticides, which is one of the advantages of "plant factory".

Therefore, it is no wonder that the plant factory produced organic vegetables, then sought after!

All 6 stores

Organic vegetables to half a catty 10 yuan, compared with the ordinary vegetables on the market five or six times more expensive, I can't afford for family cooking. According to reports, in addition to vegetable juice as a raw material is now playing, people will generally be used as hot pot ingredients, or salad ingredients, both safe and healthy.

Into the "plant factory", is a row of iron, five shelf, a Qi Qi vegetables silently, fresh water. Looking ahead, there are red romaine lettuce, Lactuca sativa, romaine lettuce and Chinese cabbage, Cole, coriander, Kyoto vegetables, variety is very rich.

This factory in Taoyuan, plant area of more than and 900 square meters, vegetable planting area of 4500 square meters, Nissan 1000 packs of 40 fresh vegetables, the monthly turnover of at least NT $150 thousand. These production, basically enough to supply these 6 stores and online sales. "Wei Quanyou said, light is the construction investment as high as 30 million yuan NT, for small and medium-sized enterprises, this is not a small number, and there are regular derived operating costs.

Walking around in the factory, can be wearing a suit and tie of the city farmers". According to reports, vegetables in the high-tech clean room where temperature should be controlled at 21 degrees Celsius, 12 hours by LED light irradiation, simulating the sun lighting, no dirt in the factory, vegetables on carbon, phosphorus and other 20 kinds of nutrition growth, no pesticides, not afraid of wind and rain.

The growing period of general organic vegetables a month, plant plant growth period of only 14 days, shortened by half the time. Their other