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Panasonic launched the Singapore’s first government-approved indoor vegetable plants on July 2014，which is used to cultivate the lettuce leaves and other 10 kinds of vegetables, annual output is 3.6 tons. The company will in cooperation with the Japanese restaurant chain named “big house” to offer the vegetables to the outlets in Singapore. Panasonic introduced the LED grow lighting and other equipment for the plant, and will strive to shorten the cultivation time and improve production efficiency per unit of cultivated area.

   

Why the Panasonic chose Singapore is because that only 8% of vegetable consumption in the country is locally produced. The company plans to make that the vegetable production of plant factory reaches by 5% of that of the country by the end of March 2017 with the help of LED grow lighting.

Toshiba announced on May 2014 that it would start heavily using the LED grow lighting and other agricultural facilities to built the plant factory named “Toshiba clean room farm Yokosuka,” in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture for the production of pesticide-free vegetables with long conservation and conduct related business. The company plans to plant lettuce leaves, spinach, turnips, etc. Japan.

According to reports, in addition to the LED grow lighting，the plant factory will use technology and experience owned by Toshiba in multiple fields. For example, the fluorescent whose wavelength of light is optimized for plant growth and the remote monitoring system used to master cultivation conditions，as well as the production management technology in the semiconductor business. The scale of production is scheduled for 3 million (by lettuce conversion). Toshiba will build a large plant factories aboard and began selling the LED grow lighting and other agricultural equipment and systems used in the factory throughout the 2014.

Sharp built the plant laboratory building factory cultivating the strawberries in Dubai to, and has started to experiment. The company introduced the electronic technology sharp specialized in for laboratory buildings, including the LED grow lighting technology and air management technology based on a plasma cluster. By using these technologies，sharp can very carefully control the  growth environment of Strawberries. The company intends to carry out a variety of empirical experiments to achieve operational objectives.

Although the strawberries made in Japan very popular in the Near East and other regions, but because of the perishable perishable, intolerant store, it is difficult to flow in overseas markets. Sharp intends to adopt the LED grow lighting in the plant factory to achieve annual local consumption of fresh strawberries.

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