{"id":39987,"date":"2021-01-12T13:32:23","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T13:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vmengine.net\/2021\/01\/12\/vertical-farm-artificial-intelligence-allied-to-sustainability\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T17:25:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T17:25:13","slug":"vertical-farm-artificial-intelligence-allied-to-sustainability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/temp-new.vmenginelab.com\/en\/2021\/01\/12\/vertical-farm-artificial-intelligence-allied-to-sustainability\/","title":{"rendered":"Vertical farm, Artificial Intelligence allied to sustainability"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As the world’s population continues to grow, it will lead to a consequent increase in the demand for food to supply the planet, and experts believe that the solution to this problem may be vertical farming known as “vertical farming”.<\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div><\/div>\n
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It is a type of “internal” agriculture that can be carried out anywhere. <\/span>It is a modular cultivation system that develops in height, vertical plantations are a type of Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA),<\/strong> i.e. agriculture in a controlled environment. This method allows cultivation inside buildings, made ad hoc, reducing the need for both water and land to be cultivated.<\/span><\/p>\n

Although this new frontier of agriculture is advantageous at the same time, this type of cultivation has received a lot of criticism, especially related to the use of large amounts of energy to grow plants, in fact vertical farms<\/strong> require the maintenance of very precise environmental conditions.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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San Francisco-based agro-tech start-up Plenty<\/a> is the first to have solved the problem by using renewable energy on its plantations.<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition, Plenty recently announced that it has raised $140 million from Softbank, after also raising investments from former Google president Eric Schmidt<\/strong> and Jeff Bezos<\/strong>. <\/span>The products are taken care of by robots, which, thanks to the help of Artificial Intelligence, improve growth by using up to 95% less water and 99% less land. <\/span> <\/p>\n

The vertical farm has a controlled climate and looks like this: rows of plants located next to each other that grow hanging from the ceiling. Robots<\/strong> and AI<\/strong> take care of water, temperature, and light. Thanks to an LED light that “mimics the brightness of the sun”, the environment where the plants grow is optimized to ensure that they have the best crop. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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Why is vertical farming more successful?<\/span><\/p>\n