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COMPANY PROFILE

Grow towers spaced to allow sunlight to
penetrate down to the bottom plants

together. Each segment has two planting that will allow us to undertake planting Q: Is lighting required for indoor
pockets and depending on the plant and harvesting with robotics. The tower growing? If so, what type?
variety, we will either choose to place one spacing on the wall can be adjusted. A: Supplementary lighting will be required
or two plants in each pocket, for example for growing in northern Europe, the
one tower consisting of 20 sections will be Q: How are the products in the wall northern parts of the USA and Canada. This
six metres high, so 20 x two pockets = 40 irrigated? is to make up for the lower light intensity
pockets x two plants = 80 plants per tower. A: We use our own irrigation method and daylight hours in those countries.
which re-circulates water from nutrient Common practice is to make use of LED
Q: How is the product installed into the tanks to the plants and back again. We lights. LSA
wall? Is it done manually? automate the control of the nutrients,
A: Currently we transplant our seedlings electrical conductivity, Ph, temperature www.can-agri.com
manually into the planting pockets, but and flow rate of water to the plants.
we will soon complete developments

Plant inspection Exterior view of the farm
with cherry
picker

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