Summary Vertical farms are growing more and more vegetables in urban areas
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Professional communication 1 (MBO21A)
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UC Leuven-Limburg
Article “Vertical farms are growing more and more vegetables in urban areas” summarized. If you're from the 'food' section, you should know one article in the first semester of 2022/2023. This is one of them.
Vertical farms are growing more
and more vegetables in urban
areas
Introduction
You can find amazing basil in a small village named Genoa, but more people use fresh basil than the
people who live within driving distance of Genoa.
BUT a close approximation can be found in a vertical farm.
Body
Vertical farm
= a farm in which crops grow on top of each other, rather than just next to each other, as they do in a
field, allowing growth at far higher density
Most vertical farms share a few attributes
1 LACK OF SOIL
Their stacked rows of crops are grown aeroponically (= the process of growing plants in the air,
meaning the roods are fed with:
a nutrient-rich mist
hydroponically (= using the solution rather than soil) nutrient-rich solution
a container in which the solution constantly flows over them
2 LESS WATER
no soil > precise control over what level of nutrients all the roots receive
eliminates weeds and keeps microbes, insects and other pests down
no fertiliser runoff into waterways > vertical farms recycle things and not dispose of them
3 SUNSHINE IS ABSENT
light > strips of leds arranged so all the dense-packed leaves are optimally illuminated
PROBLEM: costs a lot of mony
Haitz’s law = efficiency of led lighting systems improves by a factor of 20 every decade
STILL remain the costs for lighting and temperature control high
Things will improve > farms run on electricity > becoming greener and cheaper
Time their “days” and “nights” to match times when power is cheaper
4 CONTROL
Light, temperature and nutrients are directly delivered > conditions for growth can be optimised
Berries can be next
When they are transported for a long time, they don’t taste as good
In the vertical farms you can control the light, temperature and nutrients > all the seasons fresh
berries
A superior product with environmental benefits (no pesticide) that establishes a technology and
a brand
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