In your opinion, can vertical farming become the agriculture of the future in sustainable, green, smart, food self-sufficient cities?
In your opinion, in the context of the ongoing process of global warming, is vertical farming becoming an excellent alternative or complement to traditional agriculture?
With a rapidly growing global population, concerns and questions about the ability to feed the ever-increasing number of people living on planet Earth have been around for many years, but still remain. With a growing population, the scale of civilisation's processing of environmental matter, the scale of industrialisation, the consumption of renewable and increasingly also non-renewable raw materials, the increasing scale of waste generation, environmental pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, etc., the possibilities of feeding the world's population in the future will diminish rather than increase. In addition, the negative effects of the development of civilisation, including above all the accelerating process of global warming, may develop at an even faster rate. Therefore, it is necessary to urgently shift the development of civilisation towards sustainability, to significantly increase the scale of implementation of sustainable development goals, to carry out a green transformation of the economy, including a green transformation of agriculture, and to create new forms of sustainable organic farming, which will be more resistant to negative biotic and abiotic external factors, including, above all, limited resources of agricultural land and the successively increasing negative impact of the progressing process of global warming, including increasingly frequent periods of drought, soil barrenness, plagues of pests and various diseases affecting agricultural crops, etc., which will have a negative impact on the development of civilisation.
Therefore, combining the seemingly contradictory goals of increasing the production of food for people with a reduction in the agricultural areas on which agriculture is practised according to the traditional production formula, stopping deforestation turned into aforestation, increasing the production of crops for human rather than livestock consumption, significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions, increasing the scale of pro-environmental agriculture, etc., it is precisely the development of vertical farming that can help in this process of green transformation of agriculture.
Vertical farming, also referred to by such terms as vertical farming, vertical farms, consists of growing crops in a vertical formula, in which individual plants are placed one above the other on multi-level platforms. This results in a more efficient use of space, practically multiplying the cultivation area. In addition, vertical cultivation can be established and cultivated anywhere, even in the centre of a large city. Vertical cultivation can be established both in specially designed halls and by adapting existing buildings. Crops such as lettuce, strawberries, herbs and mushrooms, for example, are grown in vertical racks, towers with troughs or purpose-built systems with continuous irrigation and additional artificial lighting.
In view of the above, vertical farming is becoming an excellent alternative to traditional agriculture. The vertical positioning of plants allows a very good use of space, as a result of which significant yields can be obtained from a small area. Vertical farming uses up to 10 times less water compared to traditional agriculture. In addition, vertical farming does not use pesticides and other chemical plant protection products, as the plants are grown in closed, air-conditioned rooms with artificial lighting.
These can even be created in multi-storey buildings in cities or in halls located on the outskirts of cities. This also saves on transport and increases the food self-sufficiency of cities. The problem of droughts occurring more and more frequently in areas of fields cultivated under traditional agriculture does not apply to vertical farming. Therefore, vertical agriculture can be an excellent complement and can also partially replace traditional agriculture in the context of the progressive process of global warming. Therefore, in the context of a progressive global warming process, vertical farming can be an excellent complement to traditionally practised sustainable organic farming. In addition, vertical farming, due to the absence of pesticides and other chemical plant protection products, can also be carried out according to the basic principles that apply to organic farming.
In view of the above, I address the following question to the esteemed community of scientists and researchers:
In your opinion, can vertical farming become the agriculture of the future in sustainable, green, smart, food self-sufficient cities?
In your opinion, in the context of the ongoing process of global warming, is vertical farming becoming an excellent alternative or complement to traditional agriculture?
Is vertical farming becoming an excellent alternative or complement to traditional agriculture?
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Quite an interesting question and the answer is equally complicated. If I were to begin the early developments on agriculture to sustain food for humans, it was indeed uncontaminated nutritious soil. With the population growing, the forest denudation for agriculture increased. Developmental activities also contributed to this as well so much so that the globe is left with just about 10-15% of forest cover. Green plants account for Carbon dioxide assimilation. We are however now in a paradoxical situation where the forests which accounted for major carbon dioxide assimilation is gone and add to this increasing carbon dioxide emissions. Whatever 'Green Coverage' we are trying to enhance (including vertical farming) will surely fall short of the biomass required to assimilate the current carbon dioxide levels. More importantly, vertical farming cannot match the forest assimilation potential especially Evergreen forests. The attempt on vertical farming could at best satisfy our ego that we have attempted the best possible.
No way.
You may support the food production as obtain an artificial food like pruduct. But the product never has some cloudy and bright sunny day effect in them. Moreower you will newer rich balanced creation of the nature for the plants in this type artificial atmosphere and roots growing place.
In the current designs employed, it would hardly be an ally to the production systems of traditional peoples.
Some pertinent questions begging for answers need to be addressed. Firstly can viticulture be commercialized? What are the cost implications for farmers who want to adopt the technology? Can it be applied to all farming systems? When these questions are addressed then one can conveniently recommend such technology as a traditional alternative to farming.
Large scale investment should be a major constraint. Possibility for urban and semi urban verticulture
vertical farming is an essential component of the future agricultural landscape, complementing traditional farming methods and contributing to global food security and sustainability goals
In my opinion, vericulture can be an excellent alternative or complement to traditional agriculture if it is carried out in sustainable urban areas that strive to be self-sufficient in many respects, including food, and try to function as much as possible in accordance with sustainable development goals.
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