Determine Optimal Light Intensities for Indoor Medical Cannabis Production

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Green Relief Inc. (GR) is a licensed producer of cannabis products. The company has been growing medicalcannabis using aquaponics under 100% artificial lighting provided by LEDs. Energy for lighting is one of themajor costs for this grower as for other indoor plant growers. There is an optimum of photosynthetically activeradiation (PAR) at which the yield is maximized within the constraints of the growing environment or a pointwhere the yield is optimized against the cost of light input. However, the company does not know the optimalPAR for their crops. Also there is no such data on cannabis in the literature at this moment. This project willdetermine the optimal light intensities for the production of a few main cannabis strains currently grown in theGreen Relief facility. The research will be conducted jointly by the university researchers and staff of thecompany at the GR's facility. This project will lead to 1) an increase in revenue for a rapidly-growing Canadianbiotech company; 2) broaden a Canadian company's market; 3) improve the university team's knowledge andenrich their experience in indoor production of cannabis (as well as other crops).