Vertical farming is a practice of growing food crops on vertically stacked layers. In vertical farming, crops are grown indoors, under artificial conditions of light and temperature.
It aims at higher productivity in smaller spaces. It uses soil-less methods such as hydroponics, aquaponics and aeroponics.
Vertical farming uses significantly less water and pesticides than traditional agricultural methods. Being indoors, the crops aren’t subject to seasons and hence give high productivity year-round. Lettuces, tomatoes and green crops can be produced through this practice.
Japan has been one of the early pioneers in vertical farming. It holds the largest share in the global vertical farming market. In Japan, vertical farming is born out of necessity where traditional farming is losing it’s face due to ageing population and rural migration.
Spread is one of the companies that makes a huge profit out of vertical farming. It annually produces almost 11 million heads of lettuce from it’s factory in Kyoto, Japan. Around 30,000 heads of lettuce are produced daily in the factory, under artificial conditions and with less human intervention.
Machines run the lettuces to areas with ideal light, temperature and humidity for every stage of growth. These lettuces that grow without soil or pesticides will be collected at the end by employees.
Now, countries like Denmark and USA are also taking up vertical farming.
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Thank you, I needed this for school. Vertical farming is a great emerging modern agriculture technique .It may be suitable for super super markets like reliance fresh but in our country is quite difficult in semi urban and rural areas though It may be suitable for centre of metros .
Pros – year round production and fresh ,controlled ,conditioned vegetables.
Cons – Infrastructure cost is huge and labours should be some what skilled to control the room, pressure temperature and good
Will they have the same Nutritional values as regular farm grown crops with soil under direct sunlight?
But can India implement it practically? Robots and all look cool but we are already dealing with Unemployment problems.
If vertical farming cause any unheleth ?
Very nice
Only hazardous food for human …bcz the indoor plants are not made for human eating food that lacking sunlight
We are doing it here in India.
Anyone interested to learn more can drop a reply.
Will these products be equally healthy as traditional agriculture?
Is it happening in India
The government should look into this and invest in them in the upcoming smart cities projects!
Its Against the nature ,but world says its human intelligence…
Why to change according to the future
Why don't we change the future
Control the population
Why not india
much needed info thank you team the hindu
Consumption of vertical farming products leads to cancer
limited to few crops only
its silly to do this in India where the problem is lack of water and not growing space and sunlight and India is a hot country so the grow lights will produce a lot of heat in a confined space so you have to cool the place down with A/C which is expensive. These kinds of farming only make sense in cold countries where they have plenty of rain/water and lack of space and sunshine
Does these vegetables can have the same nutritional value as normal' one? I'm just wondering