How to grow clean vegetables is good for the health of the Dutch people

With GrowWise technologies, the use of pesticides and other growth chemicals will be eliminated, as it is too expensive and too unnecessary.

The sad fact is that while the agricultural sector is bringing about great achievements in productivity, it faces another serious problem. Plant protection drugs, growth-promoting chemicals always exist and appear in our daily vegetables and foods. Removing them from food is also costly and time consuming, so users must depend on the kindness and ethics of producers to do so.

However, Phillips has unveiled the world's largest indoor research research facility at High Tech Campus, Eindhoven, Netherlands: GrowWise City Agricultural Center with new technologies and technologies, enabling cultivation right in urban areas does not use soil and can be grown all year round, regardless of the weather.

Temperature control panel, light for high-tech field.

But more importantly, with these new technologies, vegetables and foods are created in a closed environment and managed under strict hygienic standards, insect pests will have no chance. access to these growing areas. This eliminates the need to use pesticides and pesticides after harvest. Creating vegetables and foods that are completely clean but are cheaper and cheaper.

Without sunlight coming in, LED lights became a source of light for plants. However, instead of using a single LED, the researchers used lamps in three different colors: green, red and white to optimize each plant. Thus, they can control the shape, size, and even the content of essential oils in each vegetable and herb.

This high-tech field is a completely enclosed room with sunlight.

Due to being planted on multistage shelves with separate lighting systems for each floor, researchers are able to install additional floors to increase the area of ​​cultivation. A technology transfer partner of the center can produce 900 basil pots a year from only 1m ² floor area.

This high-tech field is a completely enclosed room with sunlight, 234m ² wide with multi-storey shelves to grow leafy vegetables, herbs and different berries on each floor. . Instead of using soil, researchers use rock wool as a substrate to help plants receive nutrients but can still recycle.

This technology allows for efficient recycling of water.

In addition, this technology also allows for efficient recycling of water . While a typical greenhouse in Spain will use up to 60 liters of water per tomato, in the Netherlands is 30 liters of water, but with GrowWise technology, the amount of water needed is only 5 liters.

At Wim Peter 's 240m ² tomato field, when applying GrowWise LED technology , it has increased the productivity and profitability of this crop in the winter. Despite eliminating all types of pests, the cultivation process here still relies on bees to pollinate tomatoes, without worrying about affecting other crops.

This technology helps increase the yield of tomato plants in the winter.

City residents are increasingly demanding cleaner, more affordable, more localized and sustainable foods, so farmers, communities and large companies can be seen How will you benefit from GrowWise studies. What do you think if in the future, supermarkets, restaurants instead of depending on their supply of fresh vegetables, will grow them right in their cellar, and let customers choose the type they like. Something very desirable.

Philips City Farm - a new agricultural research center.