Soil-less technology for enhancing productivity, efficiency and sustainability in baby-leaf salad and field vegetable production

在该项目中，Saturn Bioponics将开发一种创新的无土作物生产技术解决方案，以经济、实用、可持续和有利可图的方式增加英国国内各种大田和温室作物的产量。本提案的主要主题是“提高工商业效率”，次要主题是“适应和减缓气候变化”。2019冠状病毒病大流行凸显了食品供应链的脆弱性，这对沙拉和绿色蔬菜等保质期短的新鲜农产品尤其危险。通过这项竞赛提供的新技术有助于减少对进口的依赖，有可能使相关作物的国内产量在一年内翻一番。它还将有助于减少农业对环境的负面影响，并提高有关作物生产区的生产力和盈利能力。此外，它还有助于减轻与这些作物生产有关的气候变化、疾病和微生物危害带来的风险。

In the project, Saturn Bioponics will develop an innovative soil-less crop production technology solution that increases UK domestic production of various field and greenhouse crops in a cost-effective, practical, sustainable and profitable way. The primary theme this proposal addresses is "Improving business and industry efficiency" and the secondary theme is "climate change adaptation and mitigation". The COVID pandemic has highlighted the vulnerability of the food supply chain, which is particularly dangerous for fresh produce such as salads and green vegetables which have a short shelf-life. The novel technology delivered through this competition helps to reduce the dependency on imports, potentially doubling the domestic output for the relevant crops over the year. It will also help to reduce the negative impact of agriculture on the environment and increase the productivity and profitability of the relevant crop production areas. Further, it helps to mitigate the risk associated with production of these crops that comes from climate change, disease and microbiological hazards.