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How long will it take for LED plant lights to become popular in China?

The LED plant light industry is regarded as a sunrise industry, but the price remains high. What are the problems that have not been solved except for the price? How long will it take to become popular in the country?

It is understood that the global output value of LED application plant lighting has shown rapid growth since 2013. According to preliminary statistics, it reached US$100 million in 2014 and is expected to reach US$500 million in 2017. With the increase in the penetration rate of global LED applications in agricultural lighting, the Chinese market is also slowly emerging, and the future market prospects are broad. The new blue ocean of LED plant lighting has also attracted the development of a large number of international giants. Following the establishment of a plant lighting factory by Philips LED, international giants such as Osram, Mitsubishi, GE, and Siemens have also taken actions in this field; Taiwanese factory Everlight is also early Some have set foot, and with the rise of Taiwan's agricultural finance trend, there are reports that "Taiwan technology giants Hon Hai, Delta, Jinrenbao Group, Xinxing Electronics, and the old Datong Group have also started growing vegetables across the industry"; Mainland China As for manufacturers, Kingsun Optoelectronics, Hongli Optoelectronics, and Guangmingyuan have also been conducting research and development of related products.　　

When it comes to plant lighting, most of the accompanying words are "prospect", "qianjing", and "future". However, what are the problems with the current development of plant lighting? The invention of plant lighting faces many problems to be solved. At present, the development of domestic plant lighting is slow, and the market development space is still limited. Domestic LED plant lighting is also facing problems such as lack of comprehensive talents, high cost input, lack of patents, and low enterprise output rate. When the development of plant lighting in China will enter the fast lane, it is still a question. Low corporate input-output rate 　　 As an emerging market, plant lighting has a low market penetration rate. Compared with the output value of hundreds of billions of ordinary lighting, it can only be described as "a small house sees a big house". At present, the sales market of domestic LED plant lights are also mainly concentrated in countries and regions with fewer agricultural personnel, such as Japan, South Korea, China and the United States, and Europe.　　

It is understood that plant lighting is mainly used in three fields: plant factories, plant landscapes and breeding lighting. At present, the most important market for plant lighting is plant factories. It is reported that American scientists are planning to build plant factory skyscrapers. It is said that only five such plant factory buildings can satisfy the food of millions of people, which is incredible.　　 Although the breeding lighting market has great potential, this market has not yet been developed. Breeding lighting mainly uses LED fluorescent tubes, but the biggest difficulty in current promotion lies in the change of cognition. "Plant lighting costs high and sales are low. Generally, some larger companies do some preliminary research and development and exploratory market development." Guan Yong, general manager of Sunshine Lighting, said that Sunshine Lighting has already done plant lighting a few years ago. Some R&D investment was made. However, the narrow market space and complicated channels and production procedures at that time caused the company to suspend this project.　　

It is understood that, apart from Philips, Osram, Mitsubishi, Everlight and other international lighting manufacturers who are still paying attention to this market, most domestic small and medium-sized lighting companies rarely get involved. At the same time, the investment and output of plant lighting by companies at this stage are not proportional, which also makes a large number of companies coveting this market segment "hurry up." It is understood that Mitsubishi's investment in LED plant lighting is about 10 times that of ordinary plant lighting, but the price of such vegetables on the market is 4 times that of ordinary vegetables.　　 At present, large domestic companies do not take the initiative to develop the plant lighting market. On the one hand, domestic plant lighting lags behind the international market, resulting in low domestic market penetration; on the other hand, it also frees up a new market segment for domestic small and medium-sized enterprises.

Expensive

At present, LED plant lighting is mainly used to cultivate high-end products such as hemp and mustard, which are expensive in the market. Such products have high cost, but fast returns and high profits. Not only that, LED can also realize the control of plant growth rate, which can extend the flowering period of flower plants, so that economic crops can not be restricted by seasons and accelerate the results.　　 Although ordinary vegetables can also be cultivated with LED plant lighting, the economic benefits are not high. Take a Chinese cabbage as an example, originally it can mature in 45 days, and it only takes 15 days to mature with LED plant lights. However, from the economic point of view, the market price of an artificially cultivated Chinese cabbage reaches more than 40 yuan per plant, while the traditional sun-exposed Chinese cabbage only costs a few yuan per plant, and the price difference between the two is very wide. In addition, the price of LED plant lighting products is relatively expensive, which to a certain extent inhibits the large-scale promotion of the market.　　 The growth cycle and wavelength of plants are different, and the difference in craftsmanship and the price are also very different. It is understood that an ordinary LED light for the growth of leafy vegetables is generally 400 to 500 yuan. This shows that high price is one of the factors hindering the development of LED plant lighting.

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Shortage of comprehensive talents　　

At present, the domestic LED plant light market is still in its infancy. The lamps used in the field of plant growth not only have problems such as high cost and weak light penetration. There are also problems such as product disorder, irregular production design, lack of unified product standards and quality management.　　 LED plant lighting technology is not very difficult, the key is the lack of comprehensive talents who understand biological training knowledge and LED technology. The technology and production process required for LED plant lighting are no different from general lighting. The key is the choice of chip spectrum. Although the related chip technology for plant lighting has matured, different plants have different requirements for light irradiation and different living environments. This requires companies to have a deeper understanding of different plant spectra, living conditions, and cultivation environments. And this is exactly what is plagued by many companies. In response to the issue of talents, many large international companies currently choose to cooperate with scientific research institutions to establish laboratories or plant factories with the support of policies. However, for domestic enterprises, this investment is too large and the cost is too high. At present, some enterprises cooperate with agricultural scientific research institutions, basically discussing related technical issues, rarely involving the experimental application stage. Most small and medium-sized enterprises invest in plant lighting only in the independent research and development of a few plants such as tomatoes and Chinese cabbage, that is, simple illumination of relevant plants with LED lights.　　 At present, there are not many companies that have launched LED plant lighting products. There are only a few companies such as Kingsun, Hongli Optoelectronics, and Guangmingyuan. There are few large-scale companies, and there are gaps in the market in many areas. The attitude of most companies is that the current LED plant lighting is not the company's main product, the company just regards it as one of the future strategic markets.

Lack of core patents　　

At present, the domestic manufacturers specializing in the production of plant growth lighting lamps are small in scale and small in number. They are highly concentrated in the Shenzhen area, and most of them are scattered among the manufacturers of functional lighting. Therefore, the peak 660 nanometer red light chip required for agriculture cannot be scaled up. Domestic chip epitaxial wafer manufacturers are unwilling to invest manpower and material resources to develop agricultural red light chips. And because the international giant chip manufacturers are superior to domestic manufacturers in terms of luminous efficiency and reliability, the product chips of LED plant lighting in my country still mainly rely on imports. The domestic semiconductor chip epitaxial wafer industry started late and has little accumulated experience. Its patent strength in chip epitaxy is relatively weak. A large number of core patents are in the hands of early leading companies such as Japan Nichia and American Corey, which greatly hinders domestic chip companies. development of. Summary 　　 At present, the sales market of LED plant lights are concentrated in countries and regions with fewer agricultural personnel, such as Japan, South Korea, China and the United States, and Europe. With the continuous improvement of China's LED plant lighting technology, its production costs will gradually decrease, the penetration rate will gradually increase, and the Chinese market will enter an explosive period. In general, whether it is from the perspective of promoting the development of modern agriculture or the perspective of achieving energy conservation and environmental protection, the application of LEDs in agriculture is of great significance, and the status and development needs of agriculture also provide development opportunities for LEDs. However, the road to popularization of LED plant lights in China is still very long.

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