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Green Room helping Japanese expedition
Matsudo, Japan (UPI) Jul 4, 2009 The head of a Japanese expedition in the Antarctic says so-called Green Room growth techniques have proved invaluable to the researchers. Expedition leader Shuki Ushio said the Japanese agricultural breakthrough that uses fluorescent lights to grow vegetables indoors has allowed expedition members to eat more than simple freeze-dried food products, Kyodo News reported Saturday. "I didn't think we could eat fresh crispy vegetables," Ushio said. "I was very impressed." Mirai Co. President Shigeharu Shimamura said the technology being used by the Antarctic team is based on the Green Room plant his company constructed in Tokyo in 2006. Shimamura said vegetables grown via Green Room techniques can grow twice as fast as vegetables grown through more traditional outdoor cultivation efforts. "We harvest 300 heads of lettuce a day and a maximum of 20 harvests a year is possible," he told Kyodo regarding the techniques, which employ no agrochemicals. Share This Article With Planet Earth
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Japan, India plan joint space research projectTokyo (AFP) June 12, 2009 Japan and India plan to launch their first joint space research project this year, an experiment in growing plants in zero gravity, a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency researcher said Friday. The two Asian powers are set to launch a small and unmanned Indian-made satellite in October, carrying Japanese laboratory equipment, that is set to orbit for about one week at a height of around 600km ... read more |
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