Our automated, computerized, and controlled hydroponics system offers a sustainable greenhouse designed to grow commercial quantities of hydroponic, pesticide/ herbicide-residue-free, pathogen-free, green leafy vegetables, herbs, and vine plants, while making optimal use of resources, such as water, energy, labor and land.
Growponics’ technology aims to automate the “Food in the Field” side of the food chain by bringing it indoors in a controlled environment. Through automation, Growponics eliminates most of the human costs of production in certain target sectors, which represents a large component of overall input costs. The result is an environmentally-friendly designed to boost productivity dramatically, as compared to traditional, manual mechanized processes.
The aim is achieved user-friendly system, through a unique and innovative combination of mechanical and computer operations, presented in a user-friendly configuration, which allows use by operators with basic abilities.
Productivity is the key to success in the agricultural economy. Growponics believes that automation technologies must move beyond conventional concepts, addressing all deficiencies in the production process. Given limited resources and high costs of transportation, we bring the produce to the local-grown market, using climate controlled systems for any location and high-concentration, high-yield results to compete with the field-grown market that are often located across the nation or the world because they depend on the local soil and climate, which is not a limitation to Growponics Americas.
Growponics’ automated solutions are designed to solve the deficiencies of precision farming and other emerging agro-automated technologies by completely redesigning the physical makeup of the field – moving the field into a new, compact environment.
The system is a self-contained environmentally-friendly growing factory.
The basic unit consists of a central growing hall with multiple units of 36-meter shallow-water, floating beds that need no rows in between to yield high-concentration growth. Each floating bed has a rolling mechanism to provide access to all plants as they are brought to the bed technicians who tend the plants at waist height for easy processing. The central hall is a clean area for planting plugs/ speedlings, transplanting, harvesting and packing either manually or automatically.
Apart from the numerous lettuce varieties that can be grown (curly red and green, romaine, and Bibb,), the system is suitable for all types of other leafy vegetables including spinach, chard, kale, bok choy, edible flowers, and most all herbs. In other system types, we can grow vine vegetables and fruits, e.g. tomatoes, hot and sweet peppers, cucumbers and mini-melons, as well as strawberries.
Planting, harvesting and packaging can be upgraded in the future to a fully automated level, in which all the work is performed entirely by intelligent robots, monitored by an advanced control center, eliminating the need for costly manpower and training. The computer constantly monitors the environment, keeping the oxygen, extended sunlight, carbon dioxide, humidity, temperature, nutrient levels and other factors at an optimum level for fast plant growth.