How to Make Plant Factories Profitable with LED Grow Lights

Plant factory,known as emerging agricultural production model of agricultural production in many countries around the world, can be widely used in the planting and cultivation of flowers, vegetables, medicinal materials and edible fungi. It is a modern agricultural sustainable production system created by high-tech.

In this production system, the controlled agriculture environment enables year-round production and the yield of agriculture products is dozens or even hundreds of times that of traditional agriculture.Vertical rack stacking system makes full use of the space of scarce land resources to realize multiple-production of plant factories with defined area.  Using physical agricultural technology instead of chemical agricultural technology for insecticidal sterilization have the produced agriculture products no pesticide residues , make them healthy and pollution-free and a really product quality of green or even organic. By adopting the technology of resource recycling, it not only improves the utilization rate of various resources, but also realizes zero emission and zero pollution.

With the further reduction of the application cost of LED technology based artificial light sources for plant cultivation, plant factories will usher in a golden period of development.

The development of plant factory in various countries

 led grow light is another important application field of LED lighting .Since 2013, the output value of led grow light in the world began to show a high growth trend. At present,Japan, the Netherlands, the United States, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Israel are at the forefront of development in the field of plant factory. South Korea, Singapore and China are also developing rapidly.

Japan

Japan has more plant factories than any other countries. The largest number of plant factories are located in Okinawa Prefecture near China Taiwan. The rapid commercialization and financial subsidization by the Japanese government of plant factories, which began in 2010, are helping to drive interest in their development. Secondly , Japan is very worried about the imported agriculture products containing too much residual pesticide.For this reason, their desire for local vegetable planting is very urgent. This has also helped them develop better techniques to achieve high local crop yields. so the development of plant factories has also helped fuel the development of led grow light technology. 

currently the plant factory of Japan, based on LED light supplementation technology, is the world's leading, advanced equipment, technology matching, intelligent, high degree of automation, completely in the stage of commercialization and industrialization development.

USA

There are over 40,000 farms growing crops indoors in the US. That’s over 1billlion square feet of planting area. In fact, when you see “hothouse” stickers on the tomatoes you buy in American supermarket in winter, that means it was grown inside a greenhouse. These 40,000 growers produce a market value of $14.8B annually. Now that’s just the traditional crops. Cannabis producers last year raked in $6.7B in sales and most production occurs indoors. 

Greenhouses, hoophouses, vertical farms, container farms, and even some home growing systems are all part of the indoor farming ecosystem.

Netherlands

The total area of the Netherlands is just 41.6 square kilometers, but the country is ranked first in the world by the area of greenhouse farms. Thus, the fruits, vegetables, and flowers this country produces does not only go to the countrymen, but also to millions of foreign people.

Plant factories are one of the strong industries in the Netherlands. They are highly mechanized, automated, intelligent and unmanned. They have a complete set of technologies and equipment to support the factory cultivation of vegetables. because the day is short and the night is long due to the high latitude of Netherlands.almost all plant factories need to supplement lighting with artificial light . energy-intensive traditional grow lights have curbed their use at scale. it was until recent decade years,with the development of LED technology,low-energy-consumption led grow light gradually replace the high-energy-consumption traditional HPS grow light . As a result, the energy cost of plant factories becomes lower and lower and the use of led grow lights becomes more and more common.

The main equipment of a plant factory are:

1) A thermally well-insulated and airtight warehouse-like structure with no windows.

2) Tiers/shelves with a light source and culture beds.    3) A carbon dioxide supply unit.   

4) Nutrient supply units.       5) Air conditioners.

6) An environment control unit.     7) Other equipment includes nutrient solution sterilization units, air circulation units and seeders.

 the most common crops grown in the plant factories

(1) Primarily green leaf lettuce   (2) romaine lettuce   (3)frill lettuce   (4) spinach   (5) basil   (6)arugula.

why it is more profitable ?

Before making a decision on whether or not to install LED grow lights, the question-is led grow light really worth the extra money always in the minds of growers who want to try to grow vegetables in a factory. the answer is yes . they are are worth the cost. even led grow light help to maximize the return on their planting investment.

1) There are plenty of lighting for the crops in the plant factories, no matter what season it is, no matter what latitude it is and no matter how changeable the weather is. Abundant light coupled with a controlled planting environment in a plant factory. Year-round production is not a problem at all. the growers can make the most profit with the maximum yield.

2) The photosynthetic potential of plants is stretched to its limit and grows at the fastest rate, with a shorter growth cycle than that of plants grown in the natural environment. For growers,the time to market of their product has been brought forward,giving them a price advantage.

3) Whether to use led grow lights depend on whether there is economic benefit.The longevity of LEDs has been proven by the passage of time since their introduction as illumination sources. LED grow light is a durable product with a long service life, during which a fraction of the profits generated by the produced  have already been more than offset the initial investment of lighting equipment and the energy cost during the period .

4) LED grow lights do work well as far as growing your plants. agri-food grown in plant factories with led grow light are of better quality and more easily selected by consumers. After all, it is the final output volume of sales determines the profitability of your investment and space. Good quality drives sales and thus profits. moreover, it's more in line with people's desire for food safety because of fewer pests and diseases, better appearance and no pesticide residues. the produced is safer and there is less to lose.

5) Even in the plant factories that combine natural light and artificial light, the existing intelligent control and adjustment technology has realized the flexible and accurate supply of required light according to the changes of natural light, avoiding the waste of energy, reducing the energy cost of plant factories, and achieving the intensive use of resources.  grower can earn more with less cost.

just remember that light, rather than fertilizer, is plant food. so an appropriate proper led grow light in your plant factory right for what you grow matter. come here to find proper led grow lights for your plant factory https://www.atophort.com/products/.