Reasons Solar System Makes Sense For Medicinal Plants Grow
December 09, 2021
The medicinal plants industry starts and beings with cultivation. Medicinal plant is a plant that requires energy in the form of sunlight to grow. The value of medicinal plants is dependent on what we do it with and how it is grown. Now becoming an intricate supply chain employing growers, distributors, retailers, and initiatives.
All businesses require electricity to run, significantly medicinal plants grow operations. Regardless of how medicinal plants is grown, it requires electricity to run. Medicinal plants grown indoors utilizes natural light, providing significantly reduced electricity costs for growers. The primary area that they need electricity is for irrigation.
Growing medicinal plants indoors requires artificial lighting and the use of air condition and dehumidification systems. An indoor set up mimics the ideal weather for growth. At the same time, it is maintaining full control over outside forces like bad weather and bugs. However, this requires high upfront costs, including the building, equipment, water, and electricity. Typically, the electricity expense is often the largest single expenditure on an indoor grower’s balance sheet.
The industry overwhelmingly turns to high-pressure sodium lights for its lighting needs, which are a huge power-suck. LED lights have been suggested, and some utilities offer rebates to those switching to LED lighting, but many growers prefer using what they know best—high-pressure sodium light bulbs that give off a lot of heat. As the industry becomes more comfortable with LED lighting, it could drop lighting costs from 33% of the overall picture down to near 25%.
Natural sunlight supplies most of the light needed in a greenhouse/mixed-light grow operation, and The medicinal plants grower estimates growers use one-third to one-half as many lamps in a greenhouse than in a 100% indoor grow. Greenhouses need supplemental, artificial light to mimic daylight from October to March, when long nights typically trigger plants to flower and slows growth. While greenhouses use less electricity than indoor grows, their electric bills can still be fairly high.
Both landowners and solar developers have benefited from dual-use solar installations. For landowners, the solar panels provide self-generated energy, which decreases the cost of utility bills. The panels also block the wind and limit soil erosion to maintain soil health.
Solar developers don’t have to spend as much time preparing the land for installation, as most agriculture farms are already on level ground. Solar energy production increases because of the cooler temperatures in farmland locations, limiting the panels’ overheating.
Solar energy can coincide with crop and animal agriculture. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory has continued to fund other research efforts in states across the country. With continued research and application, the future of solar energy in agriculture looks rewarding for energy conservators and farmers alike.
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* Effects of light intensity on plants
PPFD intensity affects the photosynthesis of plants. In a certain range (below the light saturation point), the higher PPFD, the higher the photosynthetic rate and the higher the plant yield.
Light compensation point: refers to the light intensity of a plant under a certain light intensity, leaf photosynthetic rate and respiration rate are equal, net photosynthetic rate is zero (organic matter formation and consumption are equal), light intensity is called light compensation point.
Light saturation point: when the light intensity of plants reaches a certain value, and then increases the light intensity, the photosynthetic rate does not increase, which is the phenomenon of light saturation.
Light intensity design
PPFD value plays a very important role in plant growth.
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