It takes only a 20 - minute drive from Zibo North Station in Shandong to reach the Kaisheng Haofeng (Zibo) Smart Agriculture Industrial Park. Covering an area of 1,200 mu, the park has built six smart glass greenhouses, where nearly 450,000 cherry tomatoes are quietly growing.
Everyone entering the greenhouse must change into disinfected work uniforms, wear hairnets, masks, and arm sleeves, and complete processes such as automatic shoe - sole cleaning and alcohol hand disinfection in sequence. Li Jiawen, a manager who has worked here for three years, told China Entrepreneur that to avoid contamination in every aspect, the park does not allow employees to take their work uniforms home. The first thing employees do every day when they come to work is to change into their work uniforms.
Entering the glass greenhouse in the high - temperature of July, the first feeling is actually coolness. The 11 - meter - high tomato plants climb along the steel frames, and they are cultivated using a soilless cultivation method. After the tomatoes are harvested, they are first graded and packed according to their appearance, and then their pesticide residues and taste (hardness, sugar content, acidity) are measured. Each cherry tomato must "burst with juice in one bite", and the sugar content should be ≥9.5°. This has been listed as a hard - and - fast indicator for evaluating technicians.
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