Innovations In Vertical Farming

Vertical farming guarantees a much more sustainable way of farming in addition to producing quality products, cutting down on costs, and making agriculture more eco-friendly.

Vertical farming is an attractive option for farmers as more and more industry experts adopt it and for a good reason. It guarantees a much more sustainable way of farming in addition to producing quality products, cutting down on costs, and making agriculture more eco-friendly.

1. Plantscapers – A Building that Provides Food for its Occupants

A Swedish food tech company named Plantagon is coming up with a creative solution that would allow office spaces and buildings to support feed a large number of people. To use the inventive methods of vertical farming, Plantagon has bought the rights to a vertical greenhouse from an organic farmer called Åke Olsson, who believes in utilizing technical innovation to find effective farming solutions.

Olsson advanced a rack transport system that gradually moved the planting boxes from the floor to the ceiling of a vertical greenhouse, thus needing no artificial light.

These vertical greenhouses or plant scapers are integrated directly into the office buildings with the usefulness of hydroponic farming. The building would be called the World Food Building to produce at least 550 tons of vegetables annually and is planned to be constructed in Linköping, Sweden.

An estimated amount of vegetables can provide food for almost 5000 people. In addition, high-level automation will be employed to maintain and harvest plants to keep the costs very low.

Moreover, everything starting with sunlight, temperature, nutrition, and air quality will be measured through autonomous and controlled systems.

Finally, it is a great innovation that keeps sustainability and people's requirements in mind by keeping transportation costs very low and saving high amounts of energy, emissions, and water. If the idea succeeds, more countries such as Singapore, Hong Kong, the United States and others have plans to adopt it too.

2.VertiCrop – A Sustainable Farming Technique for Urban Areas

VertiCrop is a proprietary agriculture technique deemed one of the World's Greatest Inventions by TIME Magazine in 2009. This patent-pending technology was created and developed so that food could be matured naturally in the environment of bustling urban areas.

This proprietary method provides quite a paradigm shift in food production and sustainable farming methods. It gives up to twenty times the yield of your standard field crops and uses merely 8% of the water that is usually necessary for soil farming.

The vertical farming innovation works on a unique suspended tray configuration that moves on a conveyor system. As a result, VertiCrop offers optimal exposure to artificial and natural light and nutrients that are accurately measured for every plant.

It has been destined in a way that it can encourage the healthy growth of crops in controlled and closed-loop environments. Likewise, it eliminates the need for harmful herbicides and pesticides and maximizes food value, nutrition and above all, taste.

3. Modular Farms – Produce Fresh Plants Virtually Anywhere in the World

The very classy and sustainable Modular Farm System is another great innovation in the World of vertical farming from the company named ModularFarms. It is a completely indoor vertical farming system that can yield healthy and fresh plants practically in any climate and anywhere in the World.

If that doesn't fascinate you enough, it is a custom-built design based on an urban farm notion. This modular farm scales as per need and has extra modules available for diverse purposes.

The Modular Farm System concentrates only on farmer ROI and plant health. Therefore, this system is the ideal pairing of container farms and the tried & tested technology of vertical farming.

This equalization between the two promotes an endless growth of fresh and locally produced plants. An underline of this vertical farming innovation is that you can customize your system and extend its functionality based on your agriculture needs to accommodate any sized operation.

4. Cubic Farming Systems – The Next-Gen Sustainable Farming System

Cubic Farms is the next generation of consistent, predictable, productive farm productions. It works on the conveyor rotation means, automated nutrient delivery system and LED lighting.

The machines utilized for growing crops create an optimal environment for the greens. It also utilizes 1/26th the amount of water that is used in traditional agriculture, thus making it sustainable.

One would generally not associate these words with agriculture or growing. Yet, the patented Dutch Cubic Farming system eliminates common farming risks to standardize the outputs by controlling the inputs.

This, alternately, means a steady and more predictable income and consistency in the product's size, taste, and colour. It also assurances a longer shelf life and greater nutritional content for your greens.