The Effects of Different Artificial LED Light Compensation for Rice Crops

Abstract

Flexible light-emitting diodes serve their purpose as an alternative source of energy for the rice crops. Three different colors have been applied for light compensation. These are white, red, and blue colors. This study aims to apply the Fuzzy Logic algorithm for illuminating the LEDs for the rice crops and compare the growth of the rice crops between a compensated and non-compensated rice crops in terms of light. The system is active 16 hours a day. LEDs automatically turn ON gradually in the absence of sunlight and vice versa. Data shows that in terms of leaf growth, the white LED is the best artificial light for compensation with an average length of 103.53 cm and in terms of weight of grains, red LED came up with the highest yield with a value of 102 grams. With a significant level of a=0.1, the white LED helped the plants in terms of plant height with a t-statistic value of 1.83 and a probability value of 0. 0S. Whereas the red LED obtained a t-statistic value of 2.02 and the probability of 0.06 which helped the crops increase the grains harvested.