Highly disruptive IoT technologies are taking agriculture by storm. No longer is there a need to grow fruits and vegetables only outside. Technology has accelerated the indoor growing movement and allowed farms to go up and up creating what is called a Vertical Farm. In a nutshell it’s basically taking racks and staking plants on top of each other and using advanced LED’s creating man made natural light, by calibrating the light spectrum for the energy and photosynthesis a plant needs to thrive. The lights can also achieve the same results of a 1,000 watt metal halide, with a 40 watt LED.
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Vertical Farming and Aquaponics use up to 90% less water, eliminate runoff, save topsoil, recycle resources, increase food safety while reducing impact on an ever dwindling supply of quality agricultural land. You can generate energy on site, with either solar energy, wind energy or waste product energy and slash fossil fuel use dramatically. After the Fukishima earthquake and subsequent tsunami. Japanese citizens are scared to eat anything that has been grown in soil. In addition to eating any seafood sourced near the site. How can you blame them? Introduced shortly after the reactor blew, the only thing left out of the equation was another protein source. The best compliment that enables the new vertical farmer to solve these problems is Aquaponics.
Year-round Crop Production
One indoor acre produces exponentially more fruit, vegetables, and herbs than an outdoor acre, depending upon the crop and scale of Vertical Farm created. For example one acre of land can produce 2 to 3 crops of lettuce per year. That same space using the Vertical Farming method can create potentially up to 90 times the amount, depending on how many floors, levels of plants, etc. Even with a modest one story container, you can produce up to 10 times the amount feasible on the same space of land.
Sustainability
No topsoil is lost in Vertical Farming and with a 90% less water usage than conventional farms, it allows perfectly for long sustainability. The only water loss, is the water that actually becomes part of the vegetation. With Aquaponics the waste product from the fish, shrimp or whatever your farming, replenishes the soil creating a practically limitless resource of growing with very little need for replenishing the soil or water.
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