VERTICAL  FARMING

Vertical farming is the practice of growing crops in vertically stacked layers. It often incorporates controlled-environment agriculture, which aims to optimize plant growth, and soilless farming techniques such as hydroponics, aquaponics, and aeroponics.

Vertical Farming systems reduce environmental impact significantly. This offers a system with no loss of nutrients to the environment, vastly reduced land requirement, better control of waste, less production loss to pests and diseases, year-round crop production, increased daylight hours / growing time per day, no variation in productivity due to weather variation, and no adverse effects of extreme weather events. 

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With the global population reaching 10 billion by 2050 the need for farm to move upwards increased. Vertical farming became the best viable offer and with innovations is sustainable energy sources to power these farms it became the obvious choice. Also, the decrease in air miles for food meant less C02 into the atmosphere and majority of the vertical farm are run on sustainable energy which is derived from the solar panels and wind turbines on top of the facilities.