How SA StartUp AgriLED Offers Controlled Environment Agriculture Solutions
How SA StartUp AgriLED Offers Controlled Environment Agriculture Solutions. AgriLED is a sustainable off-grid food security solution that makes use of Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) within shipping containers. The company produces high-quality crops with great nutritional value using its LED Grow Lamps.
AgriLED offers Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) solutions. The company’s solutions consists of hydroponics systems and LED Grow lamps and automation within shipping containers. This solution produces poison-free crops which saves water and space. The company combines the CEA system with a community center which includes access to computers, the internet, education and waterless sanitation orr a packing & distribution hub for the commercial farmer.
Making use of CEA (Controlled Environment Agriculture) AgriLED localizes the food supply, which cuts logistic cost. For ease of mobility and remote provision, the SusTainers system is housed in shipping containers, also ideal for the limitations faced in urban environments. The SusTainers system is designed to optimize the nutrition of the plant in the growing stages, and is also inline with several UN Sustainable development goals.
This new technology saves the farmer on operational costs, loss of crop and food-mile cost it also reduces their carbon footprint, increases yield and improves profits. With the company’s expertise in LED lighting and microbiology, it promises locally grown, high nutritious fresh food with exceptional taste year-round.
