Netherlands: Strawberry under solar panels not yet ready for practical use
Fresh Strawberry
Fresh Raspberry
Netherlands
Published Mar 4, 2022
Tridge summary
This was an important conclusion of researcher Herman Helsen of Wageningen UR in a webinar about Soft fruit under solar panels during the online Fruit Growing Knowledge Day. In the presentation, Helsen discussed the first research experiences from the Sunbiosis project in the cultivation of raspberry covered with solar panels in Babberich and strawberry in Boekel.
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This was an important conclusion of researcher Herman Helsen of Wageningen UR in a webinar about Soft fruit under solar panels during the online Fruit Growing Knowledge Day. In the presentation, Helsen discussed the first research experiences from the Sunbiosis project in a cultivation of raspberry covered with solar panels in Babberich and strawberry in Boekel. Less light gives bigger raspberry leaves After bad experiences with a first roof with solar panels that let through 25% or less, they are now growing raspberries with 40% translucent panels at grower Piet Albers in Babberich (Gld.). On balance, the crop will then receive approximately 50% less light – because not the entire surface is covered. This raspberry cultivation under solar panels was compared last year with the standard cultivation under foil and shade cloth. In this normal indoor cultivation, the crop receives 40% less light. Larger but thinner leaves Solar panels were found to have a major effect on leaf shape ...
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