Greenhouse design controlled by the production of the piquin chilli

© 2018 Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE). All rights reserved. This research work presents the technical and economical feasibility results of the production of piquin chili in a controlled greenhouse designed for this purpose. Piquin chili or Capsicum annum is a wild fruit that normally grows in northern Mexico. Piquin chili is as a considered a plant crop of great importance in Mexico and ultimately in the USA due to the increase in its consumption, and for having a high impact in the pharmaceutical and food industry. There is no evidence of its agronomical production, the species' demand is satisfied through the massive collection of the wild plants. Currently, the piquin chili is in wild production and it is of great importance for the development of technologies to increase its cultivation through a controlled process with the objective of satisfying its growing demand. The greenhouse presented in this project has been built with a drop irrigation system that is controlled taking into account the changing sensibility of the plant to humidity depending on its stage of development. Another important characteristic of the greenhouse consists on illumination technology developed through incidence of LED light with different lumen injections placed at specific absorbance distances according to the size of the leaf.

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