Another Dutch open field grower moves indoors for increased production
Greenhouse
There came a point when the Dutch growers at van Dijck and Willemssen started looking at installing a greenhouse to meet the increasing demand for fresh produce in the winter. For this they decided to start a new company; Siberia B.V. Committed to finding an efficient and eco-friendly set-up for their greenhouse.
In the new greenhouse, the first crops were sown at the beginning of 2016. It is equipped with a mobile gutter system for growing the plants that can be adjusted as the plants grow. The total growing area is 50,160 square meters. The greenhouse height is 6 meters and there is four meters between the grow lights and crops.
Philips GreenPower LED toplighting modules are used to deliver a light level of 104 μmol/m2/s in the grow light system. According to de Wit, these LEDs provide twice as much light output as HPS lights and the entire installation has an efficiency of 2.6 µmol/w. The high light output of the LEDs will also promote very fast growth of the plants, shortening the growth cycles.
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