SHOUGUANG, China, March 28 (Xinhua) -- Farmers in China's Shouguang have turned shipping containers into intelligent greenhouses, offering easy access to fresh vegetables.
Shouguang City is a major vegetable production base in east China's Shandong Province.
Each vegetable greenhouse has a plant room and a control room, and is equipped with an intelligent control system.
The 40-foot-container can grow about 5,000 plants of leaf vegetables, with a yield equivalent to that of a 0.13-hectare farmland.
The greenhouse also enables the people living in areas short of water and arable lands to have fresh vegetables.
So far, the container greenhouses have been exported to countries including the United Arab Emirates, Canada and Bulgaria.
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