Today, urban land is expensive, scarce, often polluted, and hardly cultivable. Not to mention, even if we shorten the supply chain as much as possible, agricultural products are very perishable. More especially, when we can see that the short-term food shortages during the recent COVID-19 lockdown were most clearly felt among the working class, who make up the vast majority of society, it shows that the sustainable agriculture of the future will not be organic, local, or "natural," but industrialized, scalable, and serving as many people as possible.
Vertical farming can slightly improve the food problem in the city, but in general it will not solve the problem. It is necessary to rationally use the lands that are suitable for agriculture. But the problem with food vseravno will exist. After all, the population of the planet is increasing, and the area of fertile land is constantly decreasing for various reasons. The only hope is for the further development of technologies that will make it possible to obtain food in non-traditional ways.
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Today, urban land is expensive, scarce, often polluted, and hardly cultivable. Not to mention, even if we shorten the supply chain as much as possible, agricultural products are very perishable. More especially, when we can see that the short-term food shortages during the recent COVID-19 lockdown were most clearly felt among the working class, who make up the vast majority of society, it shows that the sustainable agriculture of the future will not be organic, local, or "natural," but industrialized, scalable, and serving as many people as possible.
Vertical farming can slightly improve the food problem in the city, but in general it will not solve the problem. It is necessary to rationally use the lands that are suitable for agriculture. But the problem with food vseravno will exist. After all, the population of the planet is increasing, and the area of fertile land is constantly decreasing for various reasons. The only hope is for the further development of technologies that will make it possible to obtain food in non-traditional ways. 
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Ensures Consistent Crop Production
One of the biggest benefits of vertical arming lies in the fact that it is extremely reliable. That means, when you opt for vertical farming, you can be assured of getting consistent crop production throughout the year. This is further made possible because vertical farming doesn’t usually rely on the weather, allowing you to cultivate crops without having to get worked up about adverse weather conditions.
Uses Space Optimally
Reduces Usage of Water
One of the biggest perks of vertical farming lies in the fact that it follows a Hydroponic growing process whereby only 10% of the water is used. This mode of farming also uses fewer fertilizers and nutrients when compared to conventional methods. Since the water is completely clean even after usage, it can be duly reused thereby reducing the total cost and cutting down on waste.
Cuts Down on Transport Cost
You can always choose to grow crops in an area where your customer lives thereby reducing transportation costs, carbon dioxide emissions, and the constant need for refrigerating your produce. At the end of the day, this not only contributes to the freshness of your products but also makes them incredibly profitable.
Doesn’t Involve Chemicals or Pesticides
When you grow food on a vertical farm, you have the chance of completely cutting down on the need to invest in pesticides. That is because your farming is practiced in a controlled environment that prohibits the entry of pests.
Limits Occupational Hazards
With indoor farming in place, no farmer is exposed to the hazards associated with using heavy farming gear. They are also well-protected from a range of ailments like malaria, issues from harmful chemicals, and the likes of it.Since this mode of farming does not affect trees and animals around inland zones, it is also an excellent way to promote biodiversity.
Larger Produce
Probably the biggest benefit of vertical farming is the fact that it helps produce more crops in general. As we already know, this mode of farming enables cultivars to produce crops consistently in a small area. Interestingly, it also boosts the amount of produce.
What do you think about Vertical Farming, do you agree that it is the future of farming really?One of the biggest benefits of vertical arming lies in the fact that it is extremely reliable. That means, when you opt for vertical farming, you can be assured of getting consistent crop production throughout the year. This is further made possible because vertical farming doesn’t usually rely on the weather, allowing you to cultivate crops without having to get worked up about adverse weather conditions.
Uses Space Optimally
Reduces Usage of Water
One of the biggest perks of vertical farming lies in the fact that it follows a Hydroponic growing process whereby only 10% of the water is used. This mode of farming also uses fewer fertilizers and nutrients when compared to conventional methods. Since the water is completely clean even after usage, it can be duly reused thereby reducing the total cost and cutting down on waste.
Cuts Down on Transport Cost
You can always choose to grow crops in an area where your customer lives thereby reducing transportation costs, carbon dioxide emissions, and the constant need for refrigerating your produce. At the end of the day, this not only contributes to the freshness of your products but also makes them incredibly profitable.
Doesn’t Involve Chemicals or Pesticides
When you grow food on a vertical farm, you have the chance of completely cutting down on the need to invest in pesticides. That is because your farming is practiced in a controlled environment that prohibits the entry of pests.
Limits Occupational Hazards
With indoor farming in place, no farmer is exposed to the hazards associated with using heavy farming gear. They are also well-protected from a range of ailments like malaria, issues from harmful chemicals, and the likes of it.Since this mode of farming does not affect trees and animals around inland zones, it is also an excellent way to promote biodiversity.
Larger Produce
Probably the biggest benefit of vertical farming is the fact that it helps produce more crops in general. As we already know, this mode of farming enables cultivars to produce crops consistently in a small area. Interestingly, it also boosts the amount of produce.
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This process works well for producing lettuce. It can produce a fully mature crop from seed in 4 or 5 weeks. The heads of lettuce are small and compact. Their root systems are small making it easy to cluster a high density of them within a small volume of space. There are many successful pilot programs which have demonstrated the viability of this approach in real world application.
However, this approach may not scale to suit agricultural production of other crops. There is an open question as to whether staple foods like corn, wheat or rice - which satisfy a majority of the worlds demands can be produced using these methods.
The sad thing about this is that some countries that have agriculture as the center of their food and economic system is receiving little to no help from their own government. Moreover, many of the farming lands are rapidly being bought and used for industrial development. Due to this many farmers are choosing to do other jobs.
This is exactly what's happening here in our country. I live in Bangladesh and we are very much an agricultural country. But recently we are suffering a lot due to inflation. It's a cycle that has been going on. The price of other goods is affecting all the industry. Especially the farming sector. Farmers are selling goods at low prices, then the people running the syndicates are buying them and then storing them to increase the price and sell them at higher prices later. And you can understand the effects of inflation already. In order to buy other goods the farmers are paying so much that they are unable to buy farming items later on. This cycle is decreasing farming for the farmers. In order to survive, farmers are moving towards other works. This is making it so hard for everyone. And yes, the government is doing nothing about it. 
Necessity is the mother of invention. We are still not at that point where we are out of farming lands. But the situation is quite tough now NGL. Vertical farming could be a solution to this. People will come up with more ideas to maximize farming. To be honest, farming has a great impact on the economy. If your country can produce enough food, then life will be much easy.
Food is the most essential substance in our life. We consume food every day no matter what. So focusing on that will be the best for everyone. But in order to make life easy, we do need other industries too. So I am not against urbanization if people can find more ways to maximize farming. Vertical farming is one step towards that. But in the future, we may see more ways to do it more efficiently.
Food is the most essential substance in our life. We consume food every day no matter what. So focusing on that will be the best for everyone. But in order to make life easy, we do need other industries too. So I am not against urbanization if people can find more ways to maximize farming. Vertical farming is one step towards that. But in the future, we may see more ways to do it more efficiently.
The sad thing about this is that some countries that have agriculture as the center of their food and economic system is receiving little to no help from their own government. Moreover, many of the farming lands are rapidly being bought and used for industrial development. Due to this many farmers are choosing to do other jobs.
Some people still only consider their prestige in life so they don't want to work on existing agricultural land and there are even some people who are willing to sell agricultural land to buy other buildings that they don't use to make any production. That is why several exporting countries have previously become importing countries at this point and I am not at all surprised by this because now most people prefer to work in a relaxed manner without wanting to work harder due to the prestige being considered.
People will do anything in order to make money, if they can make a lot money in agriculture, they wouldn't sell their lands and work in someone companies. Prestige could be one of many reasons, but it's not really the main reason. I believe there are many risks or reasons why they're not continue their farm.There's no problem if exporting countries become importing countries, this mean the other countries are better for farming about the cost, effectiveness, weather etc, while importing countries are make money from other sectors.
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sad to say this is not the case to most of the country. here in ours, i’ll hide it in name of Philippines, it’s the other way around. Philippines is very rich of its agriculture, lands are never been a problem It’s how they maximize it and how the government support the local farmers. Sad to say, the government do import goods from China instead of developing farmlands. Local farmers are being left behind and foods are increasingly expensive. The coubtry which is supposed to be producers turned out to be the biggest consumer.
sad to say this is not the case to most of the country. here in ours, i’ll hide it in name of Philippines, it’s the other way around. Philippines is very rich of its agriculture, lands are never been a problem It’s how they maximize it and how the government support the local farmers. Sad to say, the government do import goods from China instead of developing farmlands. Local farmers are being left behind and foods are increasingly expensive. The coubtry which is supposed to be producers turned out to be the biggest consumer.
Now, what you're describing is going to take more and more momentum. China has huge problems, and now China is trying hard to force neighboring countries to buy Chinese products.... save china with your wallets. Many governments are supporting this, probably through corruption schemes. China even managed to "persuade" the BRICS countries to switch to the yuan, although they promised a market for local currencies of the participating countries. But China's supporters are trying to beat into everyone's heads that "it's all the dollar's fault", purely to cover up the rescue of China's economy.... It is a pity that your country suffers from populism and lies. the Chinese domination must be stopped, the yuanization of the world is a real evil!
Many agricultural commodities such as corn, soybeans, meat, eggs and many more must be imported from other countries, when 15 or 20 years ago my country exports the commodity, and of course this is a sad fact, this is because of the many agricultural land that changes functions become an apartment building, park, tourist attractions and so on. Naturally, if the price of agricultural materials is more expensive.
The government needs to make farming an encouraged business to do for the people and they must also focus on this agricultural aspect because that's the sole dependent of economy markets and human sustainability, farming must be done both on the rural and urban settings, a country must bot be too dependent on importation of food items from other countries when they are meant to encourage their young adults to engage in farming by making adequate provisions for their start up needs to encourage them venture into farming, this will help the country eradicate poverty, hunger and disease, other countries may also depends on their productions. We are spending billions, even trillions on tax as a world, and what do we get in return? Idiotic things, hell war is still a thing, how primitive is that. Just have a town size warehouse filled with vertical farming and you feed a whole nation, costs less than a billion dollars per year, it's real and it's there and yet we don't do it.
Land is becoming lesser and not very available for agriculture as before, There is a lot of Urbanization going on and many land space are being built on to carter for the increasing number of persons. There will be lesser organic foods available for consumption as the worlds population increase and farming space reduces. Because of this, there now has to be an improvement in farming methods and I personally consider vertical Farming to be the future of organic food farming.
In vertical farming, Plants are grown in stacked layers under controlled conditions like green house farming.
In vertical farming,
The is timely topic that is on point. There are many arguments and debates about whether organic food is really healthy or safe. It is not in my place to join the argument but my say on this is that we know that many of the so called farm veggies circulating in the western markets are all inorganic. They have been "forced" to grow a certain way, under certain conditions, with certain chemicals so that they look and taste how they want. One of the root causes of degenerative diseases aside hereditary is the food. Most of these inorganic food are unhealthy, they are making people obsese, causing a lot of heart and health problem. I sincerely fear for the future of farming in the west because nobody seems to care. All the health organization are getting funding from these unethical farmers so they keep my lips shut. If you want organic food plant them in your farm with your own hands.In vertical farming, Plants are grown in stacked layers under controlled conditions like green house farming.
In vertical farming,
I'm in so much love crops that gets it sunlight from the sun directly and enough manured soil not the the soil filled with chemicals which are unfriendly to the human organs when consumed. Lately, people do whatever it takes to survive even if affects them fellow humans.
I so much love it when it comes to growing my own crops, ( Waterleafs, Cassava, Melon, Yam, Plantains, Avocados, Papaya and Banana )
At times I wish I can make supplies and solve that for the west, because due to this war they've had shortage of what they import from Russia n Ukraine. We can provide solutions for the west. Africans have enough arable lands for farming, but they lack equipment to crop's and lack's money to fund for seeds. They can form a partnership between themselves and transportation wouldn't be difficult to achieve too. The news I read lately about Bill Gate burst my internal bubbles, what's produced in his lab are extremely harmful to the human body but yet, I still ain't see nobody tackling the MF!
Land is becoming lesser and not very available for agriculture as before, There is a lot of Urbanization going on and many land space are being built on to carter for the increasing number of persons. There will be lesser organic foods available for consumption as the worlds population increase and farming space reduces. Because of this, there now has to be an improvement in farming methods and I personally consider vertical Farming to be the future of organic food farming.
In vertical farming, Plants are grown in stacked layers under controlled conditions like green house farming.
In vertical farming,
The is timely topic that is on point. There are many arguments and debates about whether organic food is really healthy or safe. It is not in my place to join the argument but my say on this is that we know that many of the so called farm veggies circulating in the western markets are all inorganic. They have been "forced" to grow a certain way, under certain conditions, with certain chemicals so that they look and taste how they want. One of the root causes of degenerative diseases aside hereditary is the food. Most of these inorganic food are unhealthy, they are making people obsese, causing a lot of heart and health problem. I sincerely fear for the future of farming in the west because nobody seems to care. All the health organization are getting funding from these unethical farmers so they keep my lips shut. If you want organic food plant them in your farm with your own hands. In vertical farming, Plants are grown in stacked layers under controlled conditions like green house farming.
In vertical farming,
It's sad to see what used to be an exporting country and now an importing country, agricultural land is getting narrower coupled with human resources who are less enthusiastic about farming, especially for young people, because they think farming is not a cool job. therefore, with the development of technology, in terms of production, the government should encourage agricultural technology that can increase production even though agricultural land is decreasing. or in my country where large areas can open up land for the development of agricultural areas
Some people still only consider their prestige in life so they don't want to work on existing agricultural land and there are even some people who are willing to sell agricultural land to buy other buildings that they don't use to make any production. That is why several exporting countries have previously become importing countries at this point and I am not at all surprised by this because now most people prefer to work in a relaxed manner without wanting to work harder due to the prestige being considered. Many agricultural commodities such as corn, soybeans, meat, eggs and many more must be imported from other countries, when 15 or 20 years ago my country exports the commodity, and of course this is a sad fact, this is because of the many agricultural land that changes functions become an apartment building, park, tourist attractions and so on. Naturally, if the price of agricultural materials is more expensive.
The government needs to make farming an encouraged business to do for the people and they must also focus on this agricultural aspect because that's the sole dependent of economy markets and human sustainability, farming must be done both on the rural and urban settings, a country must bot be too dependent on importation of food items from other countries when they are meant to encourage their young adults to engage in farming by making adequate provisions for their start up needs to encourage them venture into farming, this will help the country eradicate poverty, hunger and disease, other countries may also depends on their productions.
Many agricultural commodities such as corn, soybeans, meat, eggs and many more must be imported from other countries, when 15 or 20 years ago my country exports the commodity, and of course this is a sad fact, this is because of the many agricultural land that changes functions become an apartment building, park, tourist attractions and so on. Naturally, if the price of agricultural materials is more expensive.
The government needs to make farming an encouraged business to do for the people and they must also focus on this agricultural aspect because that's the sole dependent of economy markets and human sustainability, farming must be done both on the rural and urban settings, a country must bot be too dependent on importation of food items from other countries when they are meant to encourage their young adults to engage in farming by making adequate provisions for their start up needs to encourage them venture into farming, this will help the country eradicate poverty, hunger and disease, other countries may also depends on their productions.
Food is more important in our society today, if their is no farm land their is also no local markets or international markets too, if you should ask me anything about farming I will tell you that farming is the most important thing in life but without farming we can't survive.
Without food human beings can't live for long so yes farming is very important because it is farming that brings about the food that we consume. Without agriculture we won't have gotten the other byproduct that's use for other products. Some countries have lands more than others but aren't using it effectively like Nigeria while others country are looking for new and innovative ways to farm and that's why we have vertical farming in Asian countries.
Countries that take farming very serious and invest into tools that can be used to achieve commercial farming will benefit in the future as they won't have food scarcity and earn revenue from exportation of food. Some countries are losing focused in farming which is bad.
Currently, as the world's population increases, the amount of land used for agriculture is decreasing. And due to the decrease in the amount of land, food shortages are occurring in different countries. At the ever increasing rate of population, in a few years the land suitable for agricultural purposes will disappear completely. But nowadays there are very few open spaces available in urban areas due to overcrowding everywhere land is shrinking which makes farming very difficult. But looking at one aspect, it is understood that in rural areas, for agricultural work and cultivation, farmers grow crops on a lot of land. In urban areas no land can be found for cultivation but in rural areas there is enough land for cultivation. And if we think about the population of the world at present, maybe after a few hundred years, there will not be any land for cultivation, all places will be populated.
Many agricultural commodities such as corn, soybeans, meat, eggs and many more must be imported from other countries, when 15 or 20 years ago my country exports the commodity, and of course this is a sad fact, this is because of the many agricultural land that changes functions become an apartment building, park, tourist attractions and so on. Naturally, if the price of agricultural materials is more expensive.
What do you think about Vertical Farming, do you agree that it is the future of farming really?
As far as I know, vertical/glass farming is prioritized and carried out by many companies that manage vertical/glass farming, this cannot be done in all countries, depending on certain regions and places, not all of them and cannot be determined as future farmers.The economic factor of vertical/glass agriculture, too expensive, can't be done by ordinary farmers, there must be a company that supports the economy to develop it, starting from glass facilities, water, seeds, fertilizers and so on, costs are more expensive, usually vertical/glass farming products are supplied to malls or supermarkets selling prices are also higher than natural farming products.
There are several vertical/glass farming companies, which went bankrupt and were unable to finance so that the land was abandoned due to unstable market demand, people prefer traditional farming products, for that I am not sure that vertical/glass farming can be made into farmers' land in the future, the processing costs are more expensive than the market selling price.
Food is more important in our society today, if their is no farm land their is also no local markets or international markets too, if you should ask me anything about farming I will tell you that farming is the most important thing in life but without farming we can't survive.
Some countries don't have enough land, country like Dubai, they don't have enough land thats why they fill-up some part of their rivers so they can build furnitured houses on it but when you come to 9ja (Nigeria) we have plenty of lands that are been waisted most companies from abroad come to Nigeria because we have enough lands, only Lagos State don't have much land because the population overe there is much and they can't farm but if you go to the North Nigeria they have farm land that only one person have about 200 plots of lands and over their lands are not cost you can own a plot of land with $700.
Without farming we can't survive.
Some countries don't have enough land, country like Dubai, they don't have enough land thats why they fill-up some part of their rivers so they can build furnitured houses on it but when you come to 9ja (Nigeria) we have plenty of lands that are been waisted most companies from abroad come to Nigeria because we have enough lands, only Lagos State don't have much land because the population overe there is much and they can't farm but if you go to the North Nigeria they have farm land that only one person have about 200 plots of lands and over their lands are not cost you can own a plot of land with $700.
Without farming we can't survive.
Necessity is the mother of invention. We are still not at that point where we are out of farming lands. But the situation is quite tough now NGL. Vertical farming could be a solution to this. People will come up with more ideas to maximize farming. To be honest, farming has a great impact on the economy. If your country can produce enough food, then life will be much easy.
Food is the most essential substance in our life. We consume food every day no matter what. So focusing on that will be the best for everyone. But in order to make life easy, we do need other industries too. So I am not against urbanization if people can find more ways to maximize farming. Vertical farming is one step towards that. But in the future, we may see more ways to do it more efficiently.
Food is the most essential substance in our life. We consume food every day no matter what. So focusing on that will be the best for everyone. But in order to make life easy, we do need other industries too. So I am not against urbanization if people can find more ways to maximize farming. Vertical farming is one step towards that. But in the future, we may see more ways to do it more efficiently.
looking at the fact that we all work is actually for one primary reason which is to feed, without food the body becomes sick, and like you said I don't think at this stage we have difficulty with lands for farming, we have very few people going into agriculture these days, the food supply is gradually dropping, and another thing have noticed with the food supply is that too many improved products that have serious health effects so not even everyone can afford the improved seeds and also I think vertical farming its also a good call but there are limitation to even when it comes to setting it up, and I think we should start encouraging people to start farming farming and to use less improved seeds and to go for more natural thing at least the quantity of the farm does not matter even if its small.
Now more and more agricultural land is changing its function into residential, industrial or other functions, in cities it is increasingly difficult to see agriculture so that the impact on agricultural commodity prices is getting more expensive, now there are more and more positive ideas for farming on narrow land, for example using the roofs of houses to grow productive vegetables or fruit .
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