Continuous cultivation system for organic ginseng using multilevel cultivation tables

• US 10,182,531 B2
• Filed: 09/16/2013
• Issued: 01/22/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyongsangbuk-Do AGR Icultural Tech Administration
• Original Assignee: Kyongsangbuk-Do AGR Icultural Tech Administration
• Inventors: Kwon, Tae Ryong, Jang, Myeong Hwan, Choi, Jin Kook, Ahn, Deok Jong, Jung, Won Kwon
• Primary Examiner(s): Williams, Monica L
• Assistant Examiner(s): Fabula, Michael A.
• Application Number:
  US14/415,966
• Publication Number:
  US 20150208594A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,954 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A01G 9/14 Greenhouses cloches A01G13/04
• CPC Class Codes: A01G 9/1423 Greenhouse bench structures
• CPC Class Codes: A01G 9/20 Forcing-frames; Lights , i.e. glass panels covering the forcing-frames
• CPC Class Codes: A01G 9/247 Watering arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: Y02A 40/25 Greenhouse technology, e.g. cooling systems therefor

Abstract

A continuous cultivation system for growing an organic ginseng using multilevel cultivation tables. The system includes a facility including: a rainproof plastic roof, a first sun-shading screen placed on the rainproof plastic roof and allows transmission of an adequate amount of sunlight for cultivation of ginseng, and a second sun-shading screen installed at front, back, and left, and right sides of the facility and that allows air to smoothly pass therethrough; a plurality of multilevel cultivation tables that includes three or more levels of cultivation tables respectively; a water supply device for uniformly supplying water to the cultivation tables; a ventilation window and an air blowing fan installed on a ceiling of the facility to ventilate an upper portion of the facility; and auxiliary light sources installed under all of the cultivation tables except for lowermost cultivation tables.

Claims

1. A continuous cultivation system for growing organic ginseng using multilevel cultivation tables, the system comprising:

a facility that is a plastic house or greenhouse, the facility including

a rainproof plastic roof,

a first sun-shading screen made of double-weave cloth that is placed on the rainproof plastic roof, and

a second sun-shading screen made of double-weave cloth that is installed at front, back, left, and right sides of the facility;

a plurality of multilevel cultivation table sets placed within the facility, wherein each of the multilevel cultivation table sets includes three or more levels of cultivation tables and wherein the individual tables of the table sets are distanced from each other;

a water supply device including

a water tank,

a water supply pipe that extends from the water tank to reach each cultivation table to supply water, and

drip irrigation pipes that are branched off from the water supply pipe to extend over each cultivation table; and

auxiliary light sources that are installed under all of the cultivation tables except for lowermost cultivation tables and that illuminate their underlying cultivation tables, respectively,

wherein each multilevel cultivation table set is a rectangular-parallelepiped body and includes three or more levels of cultivation tables that are supported on a single support frame,

each cultivation table is equipped with a perforated pipe for steam sterilization and water drainage, the perforated pipe extending in a longitudinal direction of the cultivation table and being installed to be inclined at an angle of 1 to 5°

from one end on a floor of the cultivation table,

an outer surface of the perforated pipe is wrapped with a non-woven fabric that enables drainage and prevents soil loss,

perlite placed in each cultivation table to bury perforated pipe,

soil for ginseng cultivation that is placed on the perlite, and

a drainage mesh interposed between the soil and the perlite to prevent the soil from being mixed with the perlite.

2. The continuous cultivation system according to claim 1, wherein:

each of the cultivation tables is built with a panel;

a distance between adjacent cultivation tables in a vertical direction is 50 cm to be suitable for cultivation of ginseng seedlings;

a width of the panel of each cultivation table is 100 cm; and

a height of walls standing at edges of the bottom panel from an upper surface of the bottom panel is 35±

5 cm.

3. The continuous cultivation system according to claim 1, wherein:

each of the multilevel cultivation tables is built with a panel;

a distance between adjacent cultivation tables in a vertical direction is 1 m to be suitable for cultivation of young-root ginseng or old-root ginseng;

a width of the panel of each cultivation table is 1 m; and

a height of walls standing at edges of the bottom panel from an upper surface of the bottom panel is 50 cm.

4. The continuous cultivation system of claim 1, which further comprises

a ventilation window and an air blowing fan installed beneath the rainproof plastic roof to ventilate an upper portion of the facility that is above uppermost cultivation tables of the multilevel cultivation table sets.