Horticultural LEDs: promising new light for growing vegetables

A one-of-its-kind and sustainable farming system to grow vegetables in a complete indoor environment is currently being developed by a private Qatari agricultural development company. “The system, which is under testing at the moment, is very promising and doing very well so far,” prominent Qatari agriculturist and Agrico managing director Nasser Ahmed al-Khalaf told Gulf Times. The company, one of the registered Research Centre under the Qatar National Research Fund, finds LEDs as “the best lighting sources for indoor operations primary or supplemental".