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Horticultural Structures and Plant Factory - Final Report - Iain

The target crops for the plant factory are cucumbers and tomatoes, which are widely consumed in Malaysian cuisine. The unique plant factory integrates artificial lighting and a rooftop plant production system, allowing for urban agriculture with benefits like reduced land and transportation costs. A key feature is the rooftop stormwater catchment tank, which mitigates flooding risks while supplying water to the plant factory in a sustainable way. The design is well-suited for Malaysia's high rainfall and light.

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Horticultural Structures and Plant Factory - Final Report - Iain

The target crops for the plant factory are cucumbers and tomatoes, which are widely consumed in Malaysian cuisine. The unique plant factory integrates artificial lighting and a rooftop plant production system, allowing for urban agriculture with benefits like reduced land and transportation costs. A key feature is the rooftop stormwater catchment tank, which mitigates flooding risks while supplying water to the plant factory in a sustainable way. The design is well-suited for Malaysia's high rainfall and light.

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Horticultural Structures and Plant Factory Final Report

Name: Choong Wen Kang Iain Student ID: 19190014

When you graduate university, you will start managing unique plant factory.
Explain the followings;

 What is the targeting crops? ; vegetable, fruit, …


 Explain how unique is this plant factory.
 Which kind of technologies are required to realize the plant factory?

The target crop of my plant factory is vegetable. I would like to plant cucumber and tomato
in my plant factory because Malaysian consume a lot for this two type of vegetables.
Cucumber is used for the Malaysia national food “ Nasi lemak” and chicken rice. Tomato
is also a vegetable that widely used in Malaysia dishes.

I would like to set up a plant factory with artificial lightning (PFAL) integrated with a rooftop
plant production (RPP). This is because there are a lot of advantages to use plant factory
especially rooftop farming to grow food crops. For example, less expansion for agricultural
land, less chemical leached to the environment, improving food security, reducing cost of
transportation and reducing carbon footprint. This plant factory is environment friendly
because it uses solar energy for the generation of artificial lightning.

One of the unique feature for this plant factory is from the part of rooftop planting system.
The rooftop planting system has a stormwater catchment tank which can helps to mitigate
the storm water. On the other hand, the water that stored in the catchment tank is used
for the whole plant factory system. Thus, this stormwater catchment tank can reduce the
risk of the urban area in Malaysia to getting flash flood and act also as a water supply
system. Hence, this stormwater catchment tank in the rooftop planting system can act in
multifunction.

I think this model of plant factory is suitable for Malaysia because Malaysia has high
rainfall and high light intensity in the whole year.
Figure 1: Energy cycle of a plant factory Figure 2: Water cycle of a plant factory

with artificial lightning (PFAL) integrated with artificial lightning integrated with a

with a rooftop solar electricity production rooftop plant production system

References

http://www.doa.gov.my/index/resources/aktiviti_sumber/sumber_awam/maklumat_perta
nian/perangkaan_tanaman/booklet_statistik_tanaman_2018.pdf

Toyoki Kozai, Genhua Niu, Michiko Takagi. (2016). Plant Factory: An Indoor Vertical
Farming System for Efficient Quality Food Production. London, England: Elsevier Inc.

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