Controlled Environment Horticulture: Harnessing Technology to Achieve Productive and Efficient Growing Systems
- What technology integrations are driving the next leap in productivity for Mexican indoor and greenhouse systems? How are high-tech controlled environment producers optimizing natural resources, such as water use?
- Given the major labor shortages facing Mexican growers, what automation technologies are CEA producers using to reduce reliance on human labor, and what social programs are they implementing to maintain their workforce?
- Which new growing systems, such as hydroponics, are being trialed in CEA facilities, and how viable is the scalability of these systems? What impact can they have on the efficiency and sustainability of food production?
- With greater consumer focus on healthy eating and ’superfoods’, how are fresh produce growers collaborating with seed companies to produce fruit and veg with higher nutritional value? What other plant characteristics are growers keen to develop?
- How are technology providers collaborating with CEA growers to trial their innovations in Mexican greenhouses? What strategies have proven most effective in building these partnerships between indoor growers and tech providers?