VERTICAL FARMING: H OW about growing food indoors and that too without soil and sunlight? How about getting your daily requirements of fresh vegetables, fruits, flowers, and other perishable farm produce met from a multi-storeyed building situated right next to your apartment? Sound incredible? This farming scenario is no figment f imagination but a reality. It is gaining slow and steady acceptance worldwide with the United States showing the way. Aero farms situated in Newark, US, is the world’s largest vertical farm occupying an area of 70,000 square feet and harvesting up to 2 million pounds of micro0 greens, herbs, etc. per annum. It is called Urban Vertical Farming or simply Vertical Farming. It is nothing but growing your crops in tubs kept in racks mostly placed vertically in multi-storeyed apartments as high as twenty five to thirty ...
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