Plant factory strategic alliance was established in Beijing to accelerate the application of LED in agriculture

December 5, 2010, "plant factory Innovation Conference was held in the lecture hall of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, from the finance office and the Ministry of science and technology, the Ministry of agriculture and other departments of the leadership, PHILPS, Matsushita, OULIN, Everlight, Yangtze and other well-known domestic and foreign enterprises, experts and peers in the press on behalf of a total of more than 150 people attended the meeting.

In the conference, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences owned high-tech enterprises - Beijing ieda protected horticulture science and technology limited company launched a series of new products in the successful development of the home version of plant factory and home gardening, and with the Holland PHILPS lighting, Japan MITSUBISHI chemical, Matsushita (Chinese) electrician, Taiwan billion light, appliances, OULIN group and other dozens of Yangtze International well-known enterprises signed a strategic cooperation agreement, agreed to LED plant lighting, industrial control, air conditioning control, nutrition liquid preparation in areas such as technology innovation, market development, signed a strategic alliance. The convening of the conference, not only marks the birth of the first domestic version of the plant plant, but also indicates the formal formation of strategic alliances plant plant research and development.

The factory is the most advanced stage of plant development of agriculture recognized in the world, modern biotechnology, information technology, new materials, mechanical engineering, artificial environment control technology in one high yield cultivation, dozens of times, even hundreds of times, but also in non arable land, such as Gobi, desert and island and the water, polar, space and even the city skyscrapers for production, is considered to be the most effective technique to solve the problem of population, resources and environment in the future. At present, only a few developed countries such as Japan, the United States, Holland and other relevant technology.

Beijing R & D ieda Protected Horticulture Technology Co. Ltd. has been committed to the key technology of the plant factory, after 8 years of unremitting efforts, has successfully mastered the core technology for plant factory, and has more than 30 national patents, 2009 also won the two prize of national science and technology progress. In recent years, the company actively carry out efforts to promote the transformation and innovation of the plant factory, has been extended to Shenyang, Zhuhai, Changchun, Tai'an, Yangling, Nanjing, Beijing and other more than and 10 provinces and autonomous regions of Shanghai, World Expo, 2010 Tokyo horticultural exposition, Shenzhen hi tech fair and many other high-end exhibition, has won wide acclaim from all sectors of society.

The release of the family version of plant plants and home gardening products are LED lighting, more energy saving and environmental protection features. It is understood that the environment and sustainable development in agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences from 2003 began to engage in the research and application of LED in plant factory, 2006 Design and build the first set of closed LED artificial light plant factory, and developed the corresponding LED light environment control software and light environment control device. In April 2009, the research group also successfully developed the first intelligent plant plant, the use of LED and fluorescent light for artificial light, and put into operation in Changchun. At present, PHILPS, 100 million light has been with the Academy of Agricultural Science in the field of LED lighting cooperation.

Artificial light has become one of the important means of plant production, used for many years in the field of plant artificial light are high pressure sodium lamp, fluorescent lamp, metal halogen lamp, incandescent lamp, highlight the shortcomings of these sources are high energy consumption, high operating costs, energy costs accounted for about 50% of the total operating cost to 60%. Therefore, to improve the luminous efficiency and reduce energy consumption has been an important issue in the field of artificial lighting applications. According to the Ministry of agriculture statistics, the total area of plant tissue culture in China is more than 20 million square meters, the output value of about 20 billion yuan. With the continuous development of modern agriculture, the demand for agricultural lighting is still expanding, but followed by a substantial increase in power consumption. With the concept of energy saving people continuously, agricultural lighting market opportunities and huge energy consumption to the traditional agricultural lighting technology has brought new challenges, provides a wonderful opportunity for development and application of new agricultural lighting.

The characteristics of LED light source and Research Foundation showed that plant LED as the lighting source can be widely used in plant cultivation, greenhouse, plant tissue culture, plant lighting factory, with the promotion of plant growth, the regulation of plant morphogenesis, energy conservation and environmental protection and many other advantages, not only can send out light narrow monochromatic light, such as red, orange, yellow, green, blue, infrared, and according to the different needs of any combination of plants and animals, but also the low heating characteristics of cold light source, can close distance irradiation plant, improve space utilization, not only can provide reasonable light environment for agricultural biological growth, reduction of pesticide, hormones and other chemicals, to ensure food safety, low energy consumption and green light source, has a broad application prospect, is an important development trend of the future of lighting plant.