The tech trial with a Canada-based cucumber greenhouse
Added on 25 May 2022
CO2 GRO Inc (TSX-V:GROW, OTCQB:BLONF) has announced another CO2 Delivery Solutions technology trial in a Canadian cucumber greenhouse.
The grower required confidentiality as to greenhouse size, location and name, Toronto-based CO2 GRO said.
The trial's goals are to demonstrate CO2 Delivery Solutions' ability to increase cucumber fruit yield, reduce the spread of pathogens such as powdery mildew, reduce CO2 usage and reduce the overall cost per unit of production, thereby increasing overall grower margins.
"Our plant mix in 2022 year-to-date trials has favored traditional high volume vegetable growers in North America and the EU as well as high-value flower growers in Colombia and Ecuador," CO2 GRO's vice president for sales and strategic alliances Aaron Archibald said in a statement. "We are now gaining traction with greenhouse vegetable and flower growers who typically operate much larger facilities than our Canadian Cannabis customers."
Citing Greenhouse Canada, CO2 GRO said there were a total of 838 commercial greenhouse vegetable operations with 17.6 million square metres of production area which produced nearly 664,450 metric tons of vegetables in 2019. Tomatoes accounted for 37% of the total greenhouse vegetable sales, followed by cucumbers (31%) and peppers (28%). The acreage has increased 21% over the last five years and 48% over the last decade.
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Source: Proactive Investors
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