Taiwan's ITRI LED lighting control agricultural production period is paying off

LED lighting applications in the agricultural sector more and more examples, according to a recent Council of Agriculture and the Taiwan Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) of the fruits of cooperation, to assist in Nantou water oats origin, for example, they use LED lighting to control the production of agricultural products period, and to prevent dwarf disease, from the original harvest twice a year to improve as the year harvest four times. In other words, four seasons a year you can eat fresh water oats.

COA said that in 2009 Taiwan's water oats planted area of ​​more than two thousand hectares, planted area of ​​Nantou County, 90%, about one million yuan per hectare output value of NT. According to the 2000 Puli water oats Tianfa Sheng rot and dwarf disease experience, the Council of Agriculture Agricultural Research Institute Assistant Professor Huang Jinxing found in the street as long as the illuminated area is under water oats, dwarf disease does not appear the phenomenon. They started the night light water oats planning, originally adopted in 2004, had metal sodium light, but the brightness is too strong, there are different blocks of light of different agricultural differences.

October 2010, the institute's water oats fields in the county to install LED lighting, an area of ​​about a subdivision, has been harvested in the spring of 2011. ITRI ​​was the second phase of the installation of LED lighting, water oats fields in expanding the area of ​​a farmer.

Taipower electricity according to the spreadsheet, Puli water oats consumption fee of about $ 50 million annually NT, calculated according to the institute's first phase has been saving 50%, after the second phase is expected to save 90% electricity.

In addition, ITRI also use help on plant photosynthesis spectral range, selected red, blue LED for lighting plan, forecast future water bamboo shoots are harvested all year round.

LED lighting applications in the development of agriculture, should be able to look forward to a positive investment.