Seminar: LED IN HORTICULTURE

Venue: Proefcentrum voor Sierteelt - Schaessestraat 18, 9070 Destelbergen (Belgium)
Participation is free of charge, but please subscribe before 1 december 2018 by info@pcsierteelt.be or +32 (0)9 353 94 94.

Do you already know all the different possibilities with LEDs in horticulture? LED can be used in greenhouses as assimilation light, on top or in between the canopy, but also as steering light. There are also possibilities in multi layer systems.

Thanks to the initiative of Agentschap Innoveren & Ondernemen we will discover the effect of LED light on plants and how this energy saving way of lighting is economically justified. Research, expertise and practical tools will be presented during an interactive knowledge fair. Cultivation of ornamentals, vegetables and strawberries with LEDs will be discussed. Afterwards you are kindly invited to participate in the network reception with visits to the exhibition stands of LED manufacturers.

  

Program

13u30     

Welcome and introduction

LEDs: which colours affect the plant? - Marie-Christine Van Labeke (Universiteit Gent)

Economical justification of supplemental light in greenhouse horticulture - Herman Marien (Thomas More)

Interactive knowledge fair on ornamentals, vegetables and strawberry 

16u00

Network reception with visits to exhibition stands of LED manufacturers