21 December 2023 16:30 – 17:30 (UTC+8)
【Webinar】Application of plant factories in extreme climates / 極端氣候下植物工廠的應用

In recent years, climate change has made crop production more difficult. In the future, the population will continue to grow and the population will be over-concentrated in cities. All these make it increasingly important to supply healthy, safe, pesticide-free and functional fruits and vegetables to urban people. Plant factories can simultaneously meet the advantages of food safety, efficient production and environmentally friendly production. After the COVID-19 epidemic, people’s requirements for their own health have increased, and functional vegetables will become increasingly important in the future. How to customize vegetables has become a new task for plant factories. For example, kidney patients often cannot eat vegetables with high potassium ions. They must be blanched before they can be eaten. The plant factory can cultivate lettuce and melon with 80% and 50% reduction in potassium ions respectively through special nutrient solution formula and artificial light, improving the quality of life of disease patients. In the future, plant factories will play an important role in extreme climates.

近年來氣候變遷使得作物生產變得更加困難，而未來人口持續成長且人口過度集中於都市，這些都使要供應給都市人們健康、安全、無農藥與機能性的蔬果日漸重要。植物工廠可以同時滿足食品安全、高效生產與對環境友善生產等優點。新冠疫情之後，人們對於自身健康的要求提高，未來富有機能性的蔬菜日趨重要，如何客製蔬菜變成植物工廠的一項新的任務，如:腎臟病人不能鉀離子過高之蔬菜，往往都必須要過度川燙才可以食用，植物工廠可以透過特殊養液配方與人工光栽培出分別降低 80% 與 50% 鉀離子之萵苣與甜瓜，提高疾病患者之生活品質。未來植物工廠在極端氣候下將扮演一個重要的角色。