Iranian Official Stresses Need for Using Technology to Review Greenhouse Development Methods
“The primary goal of creating greenhouses was to transfer the cultivation of water-intensive products from the open air to controlled environments so that, while producing off-season, using technical know-how, water consumption would be reduced, productivity would increase, and production risk would be minimized,” Director of the National Program for Promoting Technology in the Value Chain of Greenhouse and Fisheries Products of the Iranian Vice-Presidency for Science, Technology and Knowledge-Based Economy Amir Hossein Safarqoli said.
Stressing the necessity for replacement of open-air cultivation with greenhouses, he said, “Failure to reduce the area under open-air cultivation will put additional pressure on water and energy resources and will not achieve the initial goals.”
“We should not forget that the main key is to transfer cultivation from open space to greenhouses,” Safarqoli said.
Relevant reports in May said that a large number of greenhouses in Iran were using the home-made nanobubble generators to increase products without any need to fungicides.
“Using this technology has significantly improved the quality of our products and the health of plant roots has noticeably increased. Also, there was no need to use fungicides during the cultivation period,” said Mahin Zare’, a greenhouse owner in Iran.
“Among the positive changes observed in the products have been the improvement in the color, size, and shape of fruits and these differences are noticeably visible compared to greenhouses that do not use nanobubble technology,” she added.
Seraj Nanotechnology Company offers two types of nanobubble devices to suit greenhouse conditions; static devices for greenhouses with manual preparation of nutrient solutions, and online devices for systems equipped with hydroponic feeding automation.
Experts predict that the use of nanobubble technology can bring a yield increase of between 5 and 30 percent for greenhouse growers.
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