Vertical Farming, Sustainability in 3 Dimensions

Vertical farming is a practice of growing crops vertically in a few stacked of layer with a main purpose to maximise the production of crops with minimum usage of land area. It is usually practised in challenging cities, deserts and mountain side towns due to limiting factor such small land area, lack of nutritious soil and unsuitable geography. Used warehouse and shipping container are the common structure that be used in this kind of farming. The modern ideas of vertical farming use indoor farming technique that includes controlled-environment agriculture (CEA) technology. These facilities allow farmer to control the optimum condition for the growth of plants. Some farmer also used artificial lighting and metal reflector to mimic natural sunlight. It is believed that vertical farming is one of the genius ideas to end world hunger problem. The population of human is increasing from time to time. This might help to strengthen world food security.

Vertical Farming architecture

So, how does vertical farming works? Vertical farming can works in many ways such as

The Future Farming of Japan..

   Indoor agriculture is on the rise all over the world – particularly in Asia, where concerns over food safety and pesticide use in recent years have fueled a boom in so-called plant factories. Spread, Japan’s largest vertical farm, produces more than 20,000 heads of lettuce a day in its 3000-square-metre facility outside of Kyoto.

The vegetables are cultivated hydroponically – without soil, in beds of constantly circulating nutrient solution – under LED lights in a sterile, climate-controlled environment. Later this year, the

Vertical Aeroponic in South west U.S

True Garden is the first high-tech greenhouse in the U.S. capable of producing most cool season food crops year-round even in the scorching desert, where temperatures reach 120 degrees during the day and 90 degrees at night during peak months. The greenhouse uses very little energy in the winter months by operating in a naturally vented mode.

V-Farming reduces water usage by 95% in India!

   V-farming is a method to produce leafy veggies (spinach, amaranthus, mint, lettuce, kale, basil) and some non-tree fruits (tomatoes, brinjal, strawberries) where there is nearly no available arable land; these are grown in vertically stacked layers made of PVC pipes resembling a multi-storied building of plants. The plants are grown in a controlled environment under artificial lighting using LED bulbs, either in a building and polyhouse on rooftops or open land.

“Soil-less V-farms help grow pesticide-free vegetables using 95 per cent less water than traditional farming. And that too, in a clean and hygienic environment. A user can be assured of consuming quality vegetables.”

Urban Kisaan was founded by Dr Sairam, Srinivas Chaganti and Vihari Kanukolla in Hyderabad in 2017. Srinivas Chaganti says, “The best part of V-farming is that you can have year-round production. It can be urban-centric, thereby cutting down on the cost of transportation and

Vertical farms on the rise in land scarce Singapore

   Sky Greens, Singapore's first vertical farm, produces up to 1,000kg of vegetables a day. About 10 farmhands are needed to harvest that amount. When the farm reaches full capacity early next year, it can produce 5,000 to 10,000kg a day.

   Vertical farms have high yields because they are high-tech. At Sky Greens in Lim Chu Kang,

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Assalammualaikum and Hello everyone. We are students of class Agriculture and Man from Group 1.  This blog is actually one of our assignment and we will post things that are related to agriculture. Worry not, the information will be base on what we have learnt during class. Still we hope that you who have come across this blog can get some input from us. Thank you.

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A Bit on Us

Some things about our group members.

Leader :

Name              : Amier Izzat bin Azman
Date of Birth  : 18/02/2000
Place of Birth : Selayang Hospital, Malaysia
Ambition        : Farmer

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