“We’ll be establishing two new facilities within two years. Both farms will be built inside large shopping malls based in İstanbul,” says Halil Beşkardeşler, CEO and co-founder of Plant Factory. Besides creating two new facilities, the company is aiming to strengthen its production capacity and R&D efforts through these new projects.
Plant Factory Turkey is an agtech company based in Istanbul, Turkey. Recently, the company bagged 2 million euros in funding. As a result of the investment, the company will be constructing two new facilities to commercialize its products and improve R&D processes. The first one is Plant Factory’s first and second production facility in Istanbul, based in the city’s most popular shopping malls. Secondly, the company will activate its new R&D facility in Gebze Technical University.
Farm inside a shopping mall In total, 2,800 crops will be grown per day in the new 1100m2 new farm, with a 500m2 production area. The new farm includes two climate chambers where the team will grow four types of lettuce: chard, kale, pak choi, mizuna, and two types of basil. The crops are based on the requirements B2B and B2C channel based in the mall.
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