Light touch for vegetable growers

Colourful LED lights are often found in nightclubs but Fieldays brings an agricultural take on them.

The LED grow lights manufactured by Hang Zhou Dream technology are different from others because they only produce colours that stimulate chlorophyll in plants.

“Our lights are better than sunshine,” said company CEO Leon Guo.

“The lights are not for human beings. I like white light, but plants like red and blue.”

Guo wanted to bring the grow lights to Fieldays to get vegetable farmers interested in the products. There has also been interest in their white LED lights for household and commercial use.

The last minute decision to come to Fieldays from China was to get an advantage on competitors. “I know the Fieldays, I know that it is very popular. Not too many other people know that,” said Guo.

LED lights similar to these are available all around the world in places like Japan, Malaysia and the USA but the push for Guo and the company is to show their improved version to NZ vegetable farmers.

Three years ago, Guo’s products started being used by Nokia in their cellphones. When Nokia produced phones with front flashing technology, 90% of those products came from Dream technology, said Guo.

Guo is planning on coming back to Fieldays next year with improved household LED lighting because of the interest he’s had in it.

“Come back next year and expect bigger and better,” he said.