Plant factory refers to creating an artificial environment which is suitable for plant’s growth, implementing automatic and semi-automatic production management, and possessing a plant cultivation system that can work all year round. It is an agricultural production system with large investment, high technology and fine equipment.Plant factory has many advantages, but the key that restricts its development lies in the high production cost, so that the agricultural products produced by plant factory are still lack of market competitiveness. But the plant factory represents a direction of future agricultural development. In the future, the development of plant factory will focus on the application of new gene technology, internet of things technology, and artificial intelligence technology. The plant factory will cultivate more varieties which are suitable for artificial cultivation, create a fitter environment for plant growth, establish a production process which saves more human resources, and improve the market competitiveness of agricultural products in the plant factory. Plant factory is the outcome of the development of modern technology, and the future of plant factory will also rely on the progress of science and technology. In the future, we need to cultivate more plant varieties, find better artificial light source, prepare more efficient liquid fertilizer, and explore more optimized management model.
