Different varieties of phalaenopsis are in full bloom in the desert planting center in Hanggin Banner. [Photo/Ordos Release]

It is now possible to plant phalaenopsis, known for its strict requirements when it comes to the growing environment, in Hanggin Banner in the city of Ordos in North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region.

A phalaenopsis center funded by Yitai Group and located in the Hanggin-Banner-administered Kubuqi Desert, the seventh largest desert in China, has developed a suitable method and improved sales and marketing channels.

Phalaenopsis is highly sensitive to its environment, preferring high temperatures and humidity but being unsuited to sultry heat and poor ventilation.

Yitai transports the heat energy generated by the industry to the intelligent greenhouses through a pipeline. The intelligent system then adjusts the temperature, light and carbon dioxide emissions to simulate the growth conditions of phalaenopsis. The new model has contributed to the development of a green industry while saving energy and reducing carbon emissions.

Workers check the phalaenopsis planted in the desert planting center in Hanggin Banner. [Photo/Ordos Release]

Coupled with the innate environmental conditions of sufficient sunshine, low incidence of pests and disease and large temperature difference between day and night in the desert, the phalaenopsis planted in Hanggin Banner is high in quality and particularly gorgeous.

The center has developed more than 100 phalaenopsis varieties, and more than 60 varieties have now been grown in the greenhouses for a long period of time.

The production varieties will be adjusted according to market demand. The annual output value of the phalaenopsis grown in the center has reached 2 million yuan.

In addition to being sold to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, the phalaenopsis has also been exported to South Korea and Vietnam.

The center has built intelligent greenhouses and sterile tissue cultivation centers covering an area of 80,000 square meters in Hanggin Banner. The greenhouses are designed to be expanded to 120,000 sq m in the future.

A worker waters the phalaenopsis seedlings planted in the desert planting center in Hanggin Banner. [Photo/Ordos Release]