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Futuristic Vertical Farming Helps Plants to 'Overcome Hostile Environments' in the Middle East

A number of entrepreneurs in the Gulf are now banking on vertical indoor farming and other alternative ways to grow food in the Middle East, where traditional farming becomes a challenge due to harsh climatic conditions.

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Growing The Farming Scene

With two other co-founders, Upgrown consults on, designs and builds farms with technology that allows crops not naturally found here to thrive and be harvested.

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The American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) Has Named The TotalGrow Pure Flowering 200 Lamp Winner of a 2018 AE50 Award.

AE50 awards honor the year’s most innovative designs in engineering products or systems for the food and agriculture industries.

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Jacob Eisenberg Visits Japan Plant Factory Association (JPFA)

The Mecca of all vertical farming can be found an hour outside Tokyo, a city often heralded as the world’s largest metropolitan area. The Japan Plant Factory Association (JPFA) sits on a quiet plot next to the Chiba University campus.

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New Jute Plug

This jute plug is characterized by the use of jute and patented water storage bio-flakes which combination allows an optimized moisture and air balance.

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Going Beyond Organic With Vertical Hydroponic Farming

Crop One Holdings (COH) farms, called FreshBox Farms, deliver fresh produce to stores within 24 hours of harvest. The company aims to address the need for a local, fresh, and sustainably produced food supply through vertical hydroponic farming in Millis, Massachusetts.

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Ikea Creates Sustainable Indoor Garden To Help You Grow Veggies Triple Fast

Space10, the design lab for Swedish furniture giant Ikea, has just revolutionized the home garden. In particular, it’s targeting homes without a spoonful of soil anywhere on the property. And it’s just what you’d expect from the modern and DIY-focused home furnishings store and then some.

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3D Printing Saves Time and Money in Urban Farming Product Design and Prototyping

3D printing technology has been used in the agriculture industry in various applications, to help create small-scale organic farms in developing countries, make cost-effective tools and plant crops , and set up urban gardens.

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Fastidious Farming

Indoor Farms of America has just built the first 100 percent solar-powered vertical aeroponic indoor farm in the world.

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Helping Small-Scale Operations Develop A Recipe For Horticultural Lighting Success

Where does our food come from? Three generations ago, this question had much simpler and well-known answers. Most food was derived from family gardens and family farms.

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The Great Nutrient Collapse

IN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH, it’s been understood for some time that many of our most important foods have been getting less nutritious.

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This Underground Urban Farm Also Heats The Building Above It

Underneath a 26-floor office tower in Stockholm, an underground space once used as an archive for a newspaper will soon become a farm. And because of a unique business model, the urban farmers growing greens in the new farm won’t pay rent–their farm will pay for itself in heat.

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Canon Electronics Plans Full Automation At Vegetable Factory

The Canon unit will convert empty space at a Gunma Prefecture facility into an indoor farm initially dedicated to growing lettuce and other green, leafy vegetables friendly to hydroponics.