The Exploration and Application of Urban Agriculture in China

Dr. WEI Lingling Managing Director

Beijing IEDA Protected Horticulture Co., Ltd.

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WHO WE ARE 1

WHAT WE NEED 2

WELCOME TO OUR PARK 3

Beijing IEDA Protected Horticulture Co., Ltd.

About IEDA

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Beijing IEDA Protected Horticulture Co., Ltd. is a high-tech agricultural company under CAAS. Working on protected horticulture tech research, promotion, application and agriculture park design.

CAAS

RCPAEE

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• Vegetable cultivation tech.

• Plant factory design and construction

• Urban horticulture

• Home gardening

• Agriculture park design

• National Agricultural Science & Technology

Demonstration Park management

• Professional training

About IEDA

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Since 2002, we has undertaken over 100 projects throughout the whole country,

including National Science and Technology Park Planning, Sight-seeing Greenhouse

Design and Construction, Plant Factory Construction, etc. Our techniques have been

popularized to the units across the country in excess of 700.

Business Coverage

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WIN-WIN PARTNERSHIP

Development and application of the technical points of the Vertical farming

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Key Technical Breakthrough of Plant Factory

Key Tech Break through

Digital control

LED Source Vertical Hydroponics

Environment control

Remote control

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• Developed more than 20 Multi-

layers vertical Hydroponics system,

greatly improved space utilization.

Breakthrough 1

—Vertical Cultivation

Plant factory

Field cultivation

Difference of two cultivation

methods in unit area

land ratio

improve to 20

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Breakthrough 2

—LED Artificial Light For Plant Growth

Planting leafy vegetable with LED

Application of LED in seedling

Application of LED in tissue culture

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Breakthrough 3

—Environmental Control

Control system

Simulations

Measured values

Model

Data Acquisition System

Dynamic Database compare

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3 NovALLALLALL

Stress Detector # 17# 17 on Duty!Sh a n yRa y Tech n o l o g ies Lt d .

Number of days analyzed: 7

Number of alarms: 4

DANGER!DANGER!

My Computer

LPS #14 LPS #17 LPS #26 LPS #99

Alarm Diary

9:00-12:00 Air VPD > 2 kPa

12:00-15:00 Leaf T > 34 C

Air VPD > 4 kPa

15:00-16:00 Air VPD > 2 kPa

Test # 1 negative

SSRR

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• Realize online management and remote monitoring to control

the vegetables growth everywhere, with mobile phones, laptops,

PDAs and other terminals, through the network transmission

system.

Breakthrough 4

—Remote Control

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Breakthrough 5

— Quality control technology

Nitrogen interruption before harvest

Figure 1 Vitamin C content of expanded leaf blades of lettuce

treated by three nitrogen-free solutions

Notes: The different letters indicated the significant difference

between four sampling times for each treatment at P<0.05 . The

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Liu W.K., Yang Q.C. Spatiotemporal changes of nitrate and Vc contents in

hydroponic lettuce treated with various nitrogen-free solutions before

harvest. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture (In review).

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Breakthrough 6

— Energy-saving environmental control technology

Solar energy power + LED + Plant factory

蓄电池组

太阳能电池组件

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Plant factory for fungus production

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Mobile Plant Factory

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E-Garden

Angel-Garden

Product Line of Home Digital Plant Factory

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The First Low-carbon Intelligent Plant Factory in the world

(Shanghai EXPO, 2010)

Urban Horticulture

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IEDA was the first company working on the research and technology promotion in urban protected horticulture field. So far, IEDA has completed over 100 projects home and abroad. Our business covers planning & design, project construction, supporting products and other services related to agricultural parks and greenhouse parks.

Vertical Hydroponics Cultivation

Vegetable tree

Hanged- Potato Tree

Greenhouse Park

Eco-Restaurant

Urban Protected Horticulture

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(1) Urban Horticulture -Vertical Hydroponics Cultivation

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Hanged Tomatoes: Technical innovation, definitely changed the traditional cultivation mode of tomatoes, the plant life-span reaches over 5 years, the yield of single plant achieves over 1 ton.

(2) Urban Horticulture – Potato Trees

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(3) Urban Horticulture – Greenhouse Park

NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

DEMONSTRATION PARK

Top Exhibition Platform of Agricultural Technologies

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•Approved by the Ministry of Agriculture in China in 2009

•Cover land area 4.2 hectares

•A platform for research achievements demonstration, communication, training, guiding •Technologies promotion and application

Overview

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Functional zoning

Floral Hall

Tropical fruit tree hall

Solar light

plant factory

Mushroom

factory

Artificial light

plant factory

Preface hall

Leafy vegetable

factory

Green

innovations

Urban

horticulture hall

Fruit vegetables

factory

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Green gardening technologies are blended in city life flawlessly here. We construct a creative green space, where is full of unique agricultural innovative products.

Greening Your Urban Life

Cooperation Opportunities

Vertical Farming

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greenhouse

plant factory

Vertical farming

Visio

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ture

As high-rise buildings people live,Vertical farming will be the

place crops and vegetables grow in future. So we can call it

Skyscraper Agriculture. Agriculture producton activities now

in fields will be completed in Multi-dimensional space. It will

be a high efficient production and high-yield systems ,which

simulate the biological growth environment.

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How to enter the developed urban area? How to suit the new developing urban area?

Urban Vertical Farming

Challenges we met

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This is an international high-end platform for agriculture exhibition, communication and training.

We aim to create a base for international agriculture cooperation and build a bridge for technologies

transformation.

Beijing IEDA Protected Horticulture Co., Ltd.

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