The first example in the world: the first unmanned vertical plant factory independently developed in China has been put into use.
CTOnews.com, December 3 (Xinhua)-- the first unmanned vertical plant plant independently developed by the Institute of Urban Agriculture of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences has been put into use in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, according to CCTV News.
According to CTOnews.com, the unmanned vertical plant factory is an efficient agricultural system that carries out annual continuous food production in multi-storey buildings. This system can be used for food production in cities, as well as in the Gobi Desert and wasteland. It has obvious advantages in solving the stable supply of food nearby in cities and other places in the future, and expanding the space of arable land.
The research team of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences has made great progress in improving plant light formulation and light efficiency, solving the global problem of "low light efficiency and high energy consumption" in plant factories. The 20-story vertical unmanned plant factory they built is the first in the world.
Gan Bingcheng, deputy director of the Institute of Urban Agriculture of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, said that their automated production system should be the world's leading level, and the number of individual production layers of the facility is also the highest in the world.
This vertical plant plant with 20 layers of cultivation realizes year-round stable food production in the vertical space through the use of self-cultivated new crop varieties, vertical three-dimensional cultivation system, automatic nutrient solution supply system, artificial simulation of energy-saving light source and intelligent control system based on AI. Without the influence of climate and region, lettuce can be harvested once in 35 days under controllable environmental conditions, and other leafy vegetables, fruit vegetables and edible fungi can also be produced here on a large scale.
It is reported that this vertical agricultural system can produce more than 10 crops of vegetables a year, with an annual output of more than 50 tons, equivalent to the output of 60 mu of traditional farmland. This not only greatly improves the efficiency of land use, but also saves valuable cultivated land resources.
