The retractable roof of the 4.3ha Young Sang & Co vegetable greenhouse, in North Gregory south of Bundaberg, starts to open. The structure is the first of its kind in Australia.
IT'S twice the size of the Melbourne Cricket Ground field, it has its own weather station and its roof retracts in about two-and-a-half minutes.
Welcome to the cutting-edge technology of Young Sang & Co's 4.3ha "Brella Fields" greenhouse, the first of its kind in Australia in terms of its size and capability.
The $3 million polyethylene-roofed structure, in North Gregory, south of Bundaberg, is growing its first crop of predominantly roma tomatoes alongside other specialty tomato varieties and smallcrops such as capsicum, and was officially opened at a special introductory event this week.
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