IT House reported on December 3 that according to CCTV News, the first unmanned vertical plant factory independently developed by the Institute of Urban Agriculture of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences was recently put into use in Chengdu, Sichuan.
According to IT House, the unmanned vertical plant factory is an efficient agricultural system that produces food year-round continuously in a multi-story building. This system can be used for food production in cities, and can also be used in the Gobi desert and wasteland. It has obvious advantages in solving the problem of stable supply of food nearby and expanding cultivated land space in future cities and other places.
The research team of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences has made significant progress in plant light formula and light efficiency improvement, 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 of its kind 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 layers of single production facilities is also the highest in the world.
is a vertical plant factory with up to 20 cultivation floors. It adopts self-cultivated new crop varieties, a vertical three-dimensional cultivation system, an automatic nutrient solution supply system, artificial simulated energy-saving light sources, and an AI-based intelligent management and control system to achieve vertical plant growth. The food in the space is produced stably every year. Regardless of climate or region, lettuce can be harvested once every 35 days under controlled environmental conditions. In addition to lettuce, other leafy vegetables, fruit vegetables and edible fungi can also be produced on a large scale here.
It is reported that this vertical farming system can produce more than 10 crops of vegetables a year, with an annual output of more than 50 tons, which is equivalent to the output of 60 acres of traditional farmland. This not only greatly improves land use efficiency, but also saves valuable farmland resources.
