WORKING TOWARDS:Year-round Vegetable Production

摘要

This is just one of a number of Greenhouse and Processing Crops Research Centre projects, as researchers continue to provide growers across Canada with new tools to improve their profitability and move into new markets.Ask just about any greenhouse vegetable grower in Canada for their wish list, and "year-round production" would at the top of most pages. Retailers like the idea of a single supplier, and consumers throughout North America are favouring locally grown foods.In Canada, low winter light levels are the challenge. And it's not as simple as simply saying supplemental lighting is the answer. It has to be cost-effective, and it has to take into account how the lighting affects the plants' nutritional needs and pest/ biological interactions, among other considerations.