Over 150 Greenhouses in Iran Equipped with Nanobubble Technology
The area of hydroponic greenhouses in Iran is about 1,000 hectares. Equipping these greenhouses with nanobubble systems can increase crop yields by 15%, equivalent to creating 150 hectares of new greenhouses.
Exporting 80,000 tons of these products at an average price of $1.5 per kilogram brings in an income of about $120 million.
Also, in Iran, 500,000 tons of aquatic products are produced annually in 25,000 fish farms, and equipping these farms with nanobubble technology can double production to one million tons.
In a relevant development last year, the managing director of an Iranian knowledge-based company active in the field of nanotechnology had also said that the company’s experts had applied a nanobubble system for the agricultural and aquatic industries.
“We produce and commercialize the nanobubble system which settles one of the most important challenges of industries involved with gas and fluids. Some industries deal with mixing gas in liquids, for which the nanobubble system can be a solution,” said Aref Dadgostar.
He explained that in the field of agriculture, the company’s focus is on greenhouse irrigation, where they can increase the amount of oxygen in the irrigation water with the nanobubble system which improves the root structure, adding that the absorption of nutrients by the root is higher with this method and the plant will grow more efficiently quantitatively and qualitatively.
“In the aquatic sector, we can inject oxygen into water with the highest efficiency with this system and distribute oxygen throughout the pool; therefore, the fish do not have the stress of absorbing oxygen in the water and have a better life in the pool which will increase the production three times,” Dadgostar said.
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