Vegetable-free vegetable plant in China

Vegetable plants that do not require the use of pesticides, fertilizers and soils can open up new futures for agriculture in China.

According to Xinhua, a miniature version of the vegetable plant attracts a lot of attention at the exhibition on China's major technical achievements over the past five years, held in Beijing earlier this month. Inside the large greenhouse is 12m ² series is grown vegetables neatly on the price of water and nutrient solution containing the underlying frame red LEDs and blue.

China is one of the few countries in the world to build large scale vegetable farms. These vertical vegetable plants are scattered throughout the country, under the management of research institutes and agricultural companies.

Huang Qingman, a vegetable plant technician in the project funded by the Fujian Province's Academy of Agricultural Sciences in eastern China, said the method allowed the plantation of vegetables in any location. "We take care of vegetable crops with a solution containing 16 different nutrients, just like children drink formula , " Huang said.

According to Huang, the temperature, humidity, light, carbon dioxide (CO ₂ ) and water and nutrients in the plant are carefully controlled. Compared to traditional farming practices, vegetable plants provide greater efficiency in terms of area and labor, leading to increased productivity, reduced risk associated with water, land and pesticides.

Huang at the plant, two workers can manage large greenhouse 3.345m ^2. One vegetable crop is ready for harvest after 15 days. A 650m ² wide greenhouse can yield up to 60 tons of vegetables / year, compared to 11 tonnes / year in the vegetable farms of the same size.

Yan Wenkai, a technician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, shared that the institute is planning to build up vertical vegetable plants in the military in hard-to-cult areas like Xinjiang and Tibet. "We hope that these types of plants will allow the use of abandoned factories and underground space, as well as barren and desert land, in the future they may even be present on the Moon or Other planets, " Xinhua quoted Wenkai.