What is the GyroPlant Project?
GyroPlant aims to create clean, resilient, and productive indoor growing systems for sustainable, substrate-free cultivation at an industrial scale.
This project focuses on breaking down barriers to achieve sustainable substrate-free indoor growing systems at an industrial scale, while exploring use for strawberry and blueberry propagation and production.
GyroPlant technology offers a reusable substrate alternative superstructure to grow plants, to eliminate the need for substrates. However, preliminary R&D revealed that combining GyroPlant technology with a minimal amount of substrate may be beneficial in larger T/CEA farm systems.
The UK Agri-Tech Centre and Dole UK Ltd are working together with GyroPlant in this project jointly funded by Innovate UK (IUK) and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), conducting plant growth trials to determine the most optimal growing protocols using GyroPlant technology in combination with a range of sustainable substrates or seeding technologies, in different types of T/CEA fertigation systems.
This collaborative industrial research project will significantly improve farm resilience and self-sufficiency and reduce waste.
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