Taiwan LED lighting control of agricultural products production effect

LED lighting applications more and more in the field of agriculture, according to the day before the Taiwan Council of agriculture and the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) the results of cooperation, to assist the Nantou bamboo origin as an example, they use LED lighting to control agricultural products production, and to prevent the dwarf disease, from the original 2 year harvest second, improve the harvest year 4. In other words, the four season of the year can eat fresh bamboo shoots.

The Council said, 2009 Taiwan bamboo planting area of about more than 2 thousand hectares, the planting area of Nantou County was 9 per hectare, about one million yuan output value of nt. According to the experience of occurrence of rot in 2000 bamboo shoots and stunting in Puli Tian, Council of agriculture agricultural experiment assistant researcher Huang Jinxing found that as long as it is in the street under the irradiation range of bamboo shoots, there is no dwarf disease phenomenon. They started planning irradiated bamboo shoots at night, originally used metal lamp irradiation in 2004, but the brightness is too strong, there are different blocks of different illumination differences of agricultural products.

In October 2010, ITRI in Nantou County bamboo Tian LED lighting installation, see a land area, has been harvested in the spring of 2011. The second phase of ITRI LED lighting installation, in the bamboo field area to a place.

According to Taipower electricity calculation, Puli bamboo annual power consumption is about 50 million yuan NT, according to the calculation of the first phase has been ITRI, saving 50%, second expected period can save 90% of electricity.

In addition, the use of a spectral range of ITRI also help on plant photosynthesis, selected red and blue LED for lighting planning, the future throughout the year can be harvested bamboo shoots.

LED lighting applications in the development of agriculture, should be able to look forward to and actively invest.