New greenhouse projects implemented in South Bulgaria
Blagoevgrad Province
A complex of three-block greenhouse projects will be constructed some three kilometers away from Sandanski on a stretch of 12.7 decares. It will have a glass and steel carcass design. The investor is planning to grow seasonable tomato and cucumber plants. The projects will have no additional heating.
A small scale greenhouse project will be launched in the Municipality of Sandanski on the land of the village of Leshtnitsa. The facility will be built upon a stretch of open country of 3.3 decares out of a total investment area of 5.5 decares. It is a steel greenhouse carcass with polyethylene foil roofing and it will use pellets for heating. The greenhouse is designed for planting and growing cucumber and tomato plants.
Stara Zagora – Yambol
Industrial Plants are planning the construction of a greenhouse for growing planting material for essential oil crops, which includes a variety of strawberries and perennial plants in the Municipality of Kazanlak. Last year the Agrobio site has announced that the company has developed an in-vitro technology for growing planting material from Oil-yielding roses: a White oil-yielding rose and Rosa Sentifolia (Rosa Stolista). The greenhouse will be equipped with a gas boiler heating system. It is designed as a greenhouse carcass with polyethylene foil roofing.
A polyethylene tomato plant growing greenhouse has been built in the village of Ghinot, the Municipality of Straldzha, spreading over a stretch of 2.4 decares. The estimated tomato plant yield is 20 tonnes per decare.
A snail breeding greenhouse utilizing the curtain method (snail farming with help of a structure of vertical nests) will be built nearby the village of Vesselinovo, Municipality of Tundzha. This unusual investment (the curtain method is not very widespread) is done by Mr. Dimo Iliyanov. The greenhouse will have a polycarbonate carcass covered with a glass roof spreading over 540 square meters. Despite the relatively small square surface, the investor estimates a snail harvesting of approximately four to five tonnes of snails per snail’s life cycle, which usually lasts for eighty days. It provides possibility for the investor to stage production based on three to four life cycles of the snail per year. Snails are estimated to consume 1.2 tonnes of fodder in order to yield one tonne of snails. The snails will be ready for harvesting on attaining the weight of 15 to 25 grams – as described in the investment application.
Plovdiv – Haskovo
The company of BROD 2013 is planning the construction of an energy efficient electro technical complex of two greenhouses, with a total floorage of 13.3 decares. It is a steel multi sheds connected greenhouse that will have hot dip galvanized roofing made of double polyethylene, further engulfed by an air bag. The facility is to be built in the village of Susam, Haskovo Province. The greenhouse project provides for a ventilation installation, a system – thermoshield screen, hot water buffer and irrigation water reservoirs. The greenhouse will be used for growing cucumber and tomato plants based on a hydrophonic technology. Rock-wool will be used as a soil substitute. Estimated cucumber plant yields are 42-50 kg/sq.m., while tomato plant yields are 35-40 kg/sq.m.
A vegetable and fruit crops growing greenhouse project will be implemented in the village of Kalekovets, Plovdiv Province, based on the method of growing plants without soil, (hydroponics greenhouse factory). The greenhouse will be equipped with a heating system of boilers with a built-in burner for pellets. It is a polyethylene carcass with photovoltaic panels installed on the roofing for self-sufficient electric power generation purposes.
Happy Fruits is planning the construction of a complex of greenhouses with additional fruit and vegetable storage, and a separation and packaging hub on the land of Kurtovo Konare, Plovdiv Province.
The greenhouse is equipped with a hydroponic lettuce growing system. The technology is implemented for lettuce growing without soil, making use of water basins of 30 cm deep, 12 m wide and 65 m long. The basin water will circulate with the help of an analysis system; it will be fertilized by an automated feed hub. The project provides for no water drainage. Water basins will be refilled with specific quantities of water on a daily basis (depending on the volume of water turned into vapour) in order to maintain the right water level.
Two natural gas boilers will be used for greenhouse heating purposes.
Another greenhouse is planned in the Plovdiv Province. Intended for the cultivation of leafy vegetable crops (greens, rucola, lettuce, peppermint, parsley), the greenhouse will stretch over 2.2 decares in the village of Vedrare, Karlovo region. It will make use of a hydroponic system with various water basins over an area of 1,312,24 sq.m. of 0,40 m in depth and 0.90 m in height on zero elevation. The greenhouse will have a steel and glass carcass construction and will be equipped with fractional thermal panels. It will include a pellet burning heating system installation. Investor: Snail LTD.
Source: agroplovdiv.bg / Agroberichten Buitenland