Using mostly Dutch technology, growers are producing lettuce on an industrial site in Sweden. Yvon Jaspers from the TV program Onze Boerderij visited the facility together with Bernice, known from Boer zoekt Vrouw.
Grower Erik Lundgren explains that at Ljusgårda's production site, the LED lights run for 21 hours a day. Outdoors, lettuce needs around 60 summer days to mature, but inside the vertical farm the growers manage to produce a full head of lettuce in just 40 days. Sunlight plays no role in the cultivation itself, although the growers do make use of the sun in another way, as they generate their own solar power through a dedicated solar park.
After the initial propagation phase, the young lettuce plants grow on in vertical cultivation towers. Erik gives a full tour of the production process and also demonstrates that the lettuce has an impressively long shelf life. Thanks to their own lettuce production, Sweden, which traditionally relies heavily on imports, now needs to import far less lettuce.
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