Strawberry production by indoor hydroponic farming in Northern Canada

加拿大北部室内水培草莓生产

• 批准号: 530043-2018
• 负责人: Smith, Myron
• 金额: $ 1.82万
• 依托单位: Carleton University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Engage Grants Program
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2018-01-01 至 2019-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=665480
• 关键词: Strawberry; production; indoor; hydroponic; farming

The Growcer has proven vertical farming systems utilizing hydroponic and LED technology as a highly efficient means of**producing food affordably, particularly in northern regions where soil is not available due to permafrost and where perishables are**costly due to long supply chains. Strawberries are a food cited by many communities in food insecure areas as a favourite of**residents, by retailers as particularly difficult to source, and by growers as difficult to cultivate at a commercial scale. Specifically,**strawberries are hard to cultivate from seed and fruiting plants are most often created from "runners", or the process of having new**plants develop vegetatively from the rhizomes (horizontal stems) of mature plants. There are many suppliers of ready-to-grow**strawberry runners but all suppliers sell runners cultivated in soil, a process that carries a high potential for the introduction of plant**pathogens to a sterile hydroponics system and risk to the entire indoor farm. Therein lies an opportunity to offer options for**strawberries to our northern customers, and we are proposing further research to develop methods for indoor hydroponic**strawberry production.

The Growcer已经证明了利用水培和LED技术的垂直农业系统是生产食品的高效手段，特别是在北方地区，由于永久冻土而无法获得土壤，并且由于供应链长而导致易腐食品价格昂贵。草莓是粮食不安全地区的许多社区认为是 ** 居民最喜欢的食物，零售商认为特别难以采购，种植者认为难以商业规模种植。具体地说，草莓很难从种子中培育出来，而结果植物通常是从“匍匐茎”中培育出来的，或者是从成熟植物的根茎（水平茎）中培育出新的草莓植物的过程。有许多现成的草莓匍匐茎供应商，但所有供应商都出售在土壤中种植的匍匐茎，这一过程很有可能将植物病原体引入无菌水培系统，并对整个室内农场造成风险。这是一个为我们的北方客户提供草莓选择的机会，我们正在建议进一步研究开发室内水培草莓生产的方法。