Dragon fruit can yield for ten months a year instead of six, and the use of just one technology can make that possible. The technology is in use in Guangdong Province in China.
A garden that fruits out of season
Xinxing is a remote village in Guangdong Province, with weather much like Bangladesh's. Autumn is giving way to winter. In the fruitless dragon fruit gardens, the things to notice are the density of the plants and the effort to grow companion crops.
In this season every dragon fruit garden should be bare of fruit. But another part of the garden tells a different story: after six months of fruiting, this section has started bearing fruit all over again.
How the lights work
Above the plants hang rows of LED lamps. The garden's owner, Li, said that by switching on the lamps to lengthen the day, the fruiting season has been extended by another four months.
The young farmer wants to grow five kinds of dragon fruit for nine to ten months of the year across his 40-acre garden.
As dusk turned to evening and the clock touched six, a thousand LED bulbs lit up across the field, turning it into a fair of lights.
Source: Shykh Seraj, Hridoye Mati O Manush. First published in Bengali on The Agro News.
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