Horticultural lighting is the LED industry`s most explosive new market,
evolutionizing the future of farming with technologies and innovations enabling year-round sustainable fruit, vegetable and flower cultivation.
LED technology serves rapidly growing in horticultural market .
Horticultural research has established that radiation at some relatively narrow spectral bands can optimize chlorophyll absorption in plants that in turn drives the photosynthesis process critical to plant growth. Both packaged LED manufacturers and makers of solid-state lighting (SSL) finished products are moving to capture a slice of what is a rapidly growing marketplace. Meanwhile, researchers continue to work to understand how other wavelengths might further boost productivity in greenhouses and indoor commercial plant farms.
The match between LED lighting and commercial growers of flowers and vegetables was a natural one. Whether in a greenhouse setting requiring supplemental light or an indoor setting relying completely on artificial light, electrical cost for the horticultural lighting has been among the major expenses for farmers. Energy-efficient SSL promised from the start to reduce the electricity bill.