The world's 11 largest high-tech farms, LED light source help plant growth

PlantLab

PlantLab built in the room, with LED light instead of sunlight to plant plants, irrigation water is also less than the traditional outdoor farms 90%. The farm uses a remote upload formula to control the growth of each crop, and accurately control the ambient temperature, humidity, irrigation and other environmental conditions to ensure a reliable and reliable planting process. The high-tech farm in Holland, founded in 2010, covers an area of 200 thousand square feet (18 thousand and 500 square meters).

Green Spirit Farms

GreenS pirit Farms make full use of the internal space of dilapidated buildings to create such a high-tech vertical farm. The farm using hydroponic cultivation system, a variety of vegetable crops, eventually sold to farm located in Michigan local farmers market.

SHARP strawberry Lab

SHARP, you will think of the first time television, mobile phones and other consumer electronics products, in fact, this year, the Japanese electronics giant also began sneaking into the high-tech industry. Japanese strawberry reputation remote, but on the one hand, high prices, on the other hand is not conducive to transport, so last year in Dubai, SHARP set up a strawberry cultivation laboratory, in the indoor environment of planting strawberries.

SHARP is said to use its own LED technology and other equipment in the laboratory, can enhance the yield of strawberries. SHARP also plans to open a plant in Dubai.

Fujitsu Numazu plantation

Japanese electronics manufacturers have moved their factories to China, and some of the factories abandoned by Japan have been turned into high-tech farms. Fujitsu Corporation in Numazu to set up such a plantation for the cultivation of low potassium lettuce, to provide people with Huan Youshen infection.

Cloud based services can enhance the yield of these crops. The Japanese government, which is said to have transformed the plants into high-tech farms, has made a lot of effort, as part of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis reconstruction effort.

Farmed Here

Farmed Here is an indoor vertical farm in Chicago. The farm uses a combination of farming techniques, 97% of the irrigation water will be reused, the farm does not apply any of the herbicides and pesticides. The vertical farm also uses a number of emerging technologies, such as LED lights and the layout of the board with the Department to reduce energy consumption, improve crop yields. The crops grown here include sesame, Rolle, mint, etc..

Green Farms Agronomics & Mycology

This is a city located in the state of Indiana gas pale Paso vertical farm, using composite breeding technology of crops and sold in Chicago. The farm uses an open source model, which can be used in other areas. The farm also has its own farmers market, where consumers can purchase all year round ingredients.

Red Sun Farms

Red Sun Farms in Virginia, Dublin, covers an area of about twenty thousand acres, in a huge greenhouse nutrient solution cultivation method of planting tomatoes.

RedSunFarms is a Mexico company, which is the first high-tech farm in the United states. In July this year, about 60 thousand tomato seedlings were planted on the farm.

CDA gas culture plantation

CDA gas plantation is located in the Chicago O Hara airport in a circular hall, is the world's first indoor Airport plantation. The plant was built in 2011, with 1100 planting points in the 26 towers, and some of the restaurants in the airport terminal are the ingredients from the farm. Visitors can also visit the park and rest.

Panasonic high-tech farm

Panasonic Corp also set up a high-tech farm in an old factory in Singapore, claiming that it was the first fully licensed indoor farm in singapore. At present, there are more than and 10 kinds of vegetables on the farm, the use of special LED light irradiation of the soil environment, the next few years, they hope to grow vegetables to the species of the kind of 30.

Gotham Greens

Gotham Greens is a New York based company that uses a number of tall buildings to build rooftop farms. These farms by control hydroponic cultivation method, provide food for local restaurants and food retailers.

The company's flagship greenhouse, founded in 2010, is the first industrial greenhouse in the United States. It is now capable of producing 100 tons of vegetables a year. The company's high-tech applications in these farms include 600 million solar panels, LED light sources, passive ventilation systems, thermal barrier walls, etc..

SONY indoor farm

Not only to enter the high-tech farm SHARP and Panasonic, as well as SONY. SONY has also set up an indoor farm in the country's old semiconductor factory, which covers an area of 25000 square feet (2322 square meters), using a special GELED light source for irradiation. At the moment, the farm is only growing cucumbers and tomatoes, but in the future SONY will have further plans for the farm.

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