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Title:

Retractable Roof Polyhouse

Value Proposition:

To overcome the adverse climatic impacts and open-air pest infestations, it is used to manipulate sunlight quantity, quality and duration, water stress, humidity, carbon dioxide levels, and crop and soil temperatures for cultivation of horticultural crops.

Summary Application:

The system is suitable for protecting crops from adverse climatic conditions. It combines the benefit of both the natural outdoor environment and a controlled greenhouse environment to allow growers to extend harvest seasons to realize higher prices and increase yields. It helps in growing organically or chemical-free crops to achieve higher revenues and lower production costs. It prevents crop overheating by cutting infrared radiation. It is a better and uniform control of indoor humidity by adjusting the vents.

Advantages:
  1. Suitable for protecting crops from adverse climatic conditions
  2. It combines the benefit of both the natural outdoor environment and a controlled greenhouse environment to allow growers to extend harvest seasons in order to realize higher prices, increasing yields
  3. It helps in growing organically or chemical-free crops in order to achieve higher revenues and lower production costs
  4. Prevents crop overheating by cutting infrared radiation,
  5. Better and uniform control of indoor humidity by adjusting the vents
  6. Uniform air and CO2 exchange from the atmosphere throughout the polyhouse
  7. Better plant vegetative by manipulating humidity and light
  8. More viable technology for organic cultivation
  9. Farmers can cultivate seasonal and non-seasonal crops throughout the year, which fetch higher value and income.
  10. Less requirement for pesticide use
  11. Increase in harvesting period
  12. Reduced cost of crop cultivation
Commercialization Status: Licensed awaiting commercialisation
Tech. Readiness Level:
CSIR- Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute
CSIR- Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute[CSIR-CMERI]
:  director[at]cmeri[dot]res[dot]in
:91-343-2546401, 6510701
:https://www.cmeri.res.in
Industrial Applications: Agriculture methods [Agriculture] Agricutltural Tools [Agriculture] Crops Improvement [Agriculture] Fertilizers [Agriculture] Soil Quality [Agriculture]
Other IPR(s): Copyright title:Retractable Roof Polyhouse

CR No.038CR2022, dated 31.05.2022

CSIR-CMERI/IPMG/Copyright/2022-23/236

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