11 smart greenhouses up in DA research center in W. Visayas

Added on 07 January 2022

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11 smart greenhouses up in DA research center in W. Visayas

ILOILO CITY - A total of 11 units of smart greenhouses in Barangay Hamungaya in Jaro District here will provide an all-year-round supply of high-value crops to ease the fear of food shortage in this time of the pandemic.

The smart greenhouses are expected to be completed at the Department of Agriculture -Western Visayas Integrated Agricultural Research Center (DA-WESVIARC) during the first quarter of 2022.

The information technology-based or smart greenhouses are funded by the Korean government through the Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), agriculture regional executive director Remelyn Recoter said in an interview on Friday.

The project costs PHP5.5 million with each unit priced at PHP500,000, she said.

"The technology is not the same with the hydroponics. It is more high-tech," she added.

Recoter said the facility needs no manual operation as it is computerized.

The computer determines the temperature and nutritional needs of the plants to be grown in it.

A greenhouse is a structure with walls and a roof made chiefly of transparent material, such as glass, where plants requiring regulated climatic conditions are grown.

The smart greenhouses will prioritize the growing of sweet pepper, tomatoes, and mushroom, she added.

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