{"id":139252,"date":"2021-10-05T20:54:16","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T15:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=139252"},"modified":"2021-10-12T16:33:20","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T11:03:20","slug":"the-future-of-vertical-farming-is-brighter-than-once-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-future-of-vertical-farming-is-brighter-than-once-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"The future of vertical farming is brighter than once thought"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Synopsis:<\/strong> The concept of vertical farming can fix several problems faced by conventional farms.<\/p>\n

Introduction<\/strong><\/h5>\n

AeroFarms is going to be the first vertical-farming startup to be listed on the Nasdaq in the next month after it completes a merger with Spring Valley Acquisition Corp.<\/p>\n

What is Vertical farming?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

It is a system for growing food without soil or sun that for decades has thrived mainly in sci-fi films and the International Space Station.<\/p>\n

How vertical farming can be beneficial in future?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Vertical farms can play a key role in producing local and perishable specialty crops<\/strong>: They can eliminate fuel-intensive long-distance trucking, along with food rot and waste. \u00a0When located in and near cities, they have the added advantage of being protected from supply chain disruptions.<\/p>\n

Benefit drought prone areas<\/strong>: the technology AeroFarms and other market leaders are pioneering will benefit regions that have increasingly limited water and arable land.<\/p>\n

Less water usage<\/strong>: Aeroponic farms use up to 95% less water than in-field vegetable production and grow food 30% to 40% faster. They use as little as 0.3% of the land of a field farmers.<\/p>\n

High productivity<\/strong>: The company has seen a 23% increase in its yield-per-square-foot of indoor growing space in the past year alone, and has sped the grow cycle for baby leafy greens from 20 to 14 days\u2014compared to 4 to 6 weeks in the field.<\/p>\n

Organic produce<\/strong>: The plants are grown without herbicides, fungicides or insecticides, gains for both the economics and human health.<\/p>\n

High-flavour and high-nutrient produce and high-profit ingredients for nutraceuticals<\/strong>: The plant data gathered by cameras and sensors have driven rapid innovations. Variables including light, moisture, nutrients, oxygen, CO2, and temperature can be monitored so precisely within a vertical farm that the flavours, nutrients and phenotypes of plants, in turn, can be manipulated.<\/p>\n

What are some issues associated with vertical farming?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Requires more energy and technology<\/strong>: For example, AeroFarms has pioneered an \u2018aeroponic\u2019 system that grows plants in stacked metal trays, their roots dangling in mid-air as they\u2019re fed a nutrient-rich mist. LED lights replace sunshine.<\/p>\n

High cost of input<\/strong>: Cameras and sensors gather millions of data points tracking the needs of the plants as they grow.<\/p>\n

Skilled human resource<\/strong>: This kind of hyper-controlled indoor agriculture requires an expensive labour force of engineers, plant scientists and computer programmers.<\/p>\n

Luxury good<\/strong>: Vertical farming also relies on urban real estate more expensive than rural farmland. AeroFarms\u2019 products, which include \u2018baby watercress\u2019 and \u2018micro broccoli\u2019, currently sell for $2 an ounce.<\/p>\n

High-tech agriculture is still high-risk<\/strong>: Because there is no soil or other barrier to protect the roots, even a small number of bacteria in the root chamber can harm the plants.<\/p>\n

Source<\/strong>: This post is based on the article \u201cThe future of vertical farming is brighter than once thought\u201d<\/strong> published in Livemint<\/strong> on 5th October<\/strong> 2021<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Synopsis: The concept of vertical farming can fix several problems faced by conventional farms. Introduction AeroFarms is going to be the first vertical-farming startup to be listed on the Nasdaq in the next month after it completes a merger with Spring Valley Acquisition Corp. What is Vertical farming? It is a system for growing food… Continue reading The future of vertical farming is brighter than once thought<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10316,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[9007,216,8816,7608],"class_list":["post-139252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-agriculture-sector","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-major-crops-and-cropping-patterns","tag-vertical-farming","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":2,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1698459189},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}