Bayer and Temasek Launch Seed Company For Vertical Farming
Temasek and Bayer to develop vegetable seed varieties for vertical farming.
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The Critical Technologies That Sparked The CEA Revolution
This is the second part of a two-part series looking at how CEA has emerged as a viable, contemporary agricultural practice over the past 50 years.
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Feeding The World With Controlled Environments
This is the first part of a two-part series looking at how CEA has emerged as a viable, contemporary agricultural practice over the past 50 years.
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This Robot Uses AI To Pollinate Greenhouse Tomatoes
An Israeli company that has created an autonomous pollinating robot has started its first trials in Australia.
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Vertical Farming Company, Smart Acres, To Expand Across UAE
Expected to launch in the third quarter of 2020, Smart Acres will be the UAE’s latest addition to the hydroponic vertical farming industry, set to bring a green and efficient way of producing a new set of clean crops locally.
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How This Urban Farm Is Supplying A Growing Demand For Microgreens In Manila
Urban Roots is an indoor, hydroponic farm growing microgreens in the heart of Metro Manila. They currently grow different kinds of microgreens, addressing the high demand and low supply of these products in the Philippines.
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Agritecture Releases First-Ever Digital Platform For Planning Urban Farms
Agritecture has released its beta version of Agritecture Designer - the world’s first digital platform for planning urban farms.
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Foodshed.io To Bring Farmers Markets To The Produce Aisle
Foodshed.io lands deal with Schnucks to bring the farmers’ market to the produce department
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Kenyan Agri-Tech Startup, Taimba, Receives $277k In Funding
Kenyan B2B agri-tech startup Taimba, which operates a mobile-based cashless platform connecting rural smallholder farmers to urban retailers, raises US$277,000 in funding.
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From Amazon to AgTech: How This Executive Turned Her Side Hustle Into A Career
How does a veteran digital media executive turn her passion for urban farming, impact investing, travel, and experiential learning into a career?
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Indian Greenhouse Agritech Platform Raises $5.5M In Series A
Clover Ventures is able to increase traceability and improve its farmers’ bottom line in a high-fragmented business market in India. Within this business model, Clover stated that it intends to use the capital raised through this round to expand and diversify the range of fresh produce offered throu
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The Viability Of Vertically Farming Leafy Greens
Researchers to Study the Viability of Vertically Farming Leafy Greens
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Revol Greens' New Greenhouse To Grow 10 Million Pounds Of Lettuce A Year
Revol Greens is growing leafy greens In massive, sustainable greenhouses
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The Smart Agriculture System Making Commercial And Home Farming Easier
Seeing the growing food shortages and food safety concerns, agriculture technology (agritech) firm Plant Cartridge Sdn Bhd has developed a growing kit to enable sustainable urban farming at home.
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Switzerland's First Robotic Vertical Farm
Collaborating with the cooperative retailer Migros Basel, Growcer is currently developing the first Robotic Vertical Farm in Switzerland.
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Why Vertical Farming Is A Fast-Growing Sector In The UK
Being able to produce crops 365 days a year, without the need for pesticides or much human intervention, while being unaffected by the weather appeals to the UK population.
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How Hydroponics Can Help Feed the World While Saving Water
On a traditional farm, it takes more than 15 times that amount of water to grow a head of lettuce. If hydroponics systems were adopted just across the lettuce industry, they could save billions of gallons of water each year in the United States alone.
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Vertical Farming Takes Off In Japan Amidst Aging Population and Urbanization
With the average age of a farmer in Japan at 67 and few candidates to replace those dying out, the country has been forced to become a pioneer in so-called vertical farming
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Vertical Farm In Liverpool Is Growing Food Underground
Needing no soil or sun, an underground farm in Liverpool challenges traditional methods
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Largest Vegetable Greenhouse In The U.S. Constructed in New York
Havecon Horticultural Projects is nearing completion on the construction of Mastronardi Produce Ltd.’s new Green Empire Farms (GEF), a high-tech greenhouse located in Oneida, NY.
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A Trade Association To Advocate For Vertical Farming Industry
The vertical farming industry is about to get its first trade group, the American Association for Urban and Vertical Farming.
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Babylon Micro Farms: A New Approach To Urban Food Production
Babylon Micro-Farms, a startup, sells 32” x 66” x 96” tall machines that use controlled environment hydroponics to grow leafy greens, herbs and edible flowers.
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Singapore Vertical Farming Start-Up Expands to Hong Kong
Singapore Agritech Startup Sustenir Now Serving Hong Kong With Locally Grown, Low Emissions Kale
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UAE Prepares To Build A Greenhouse On Mars
The Mars Science City project falls within the UAE’s objectives to lead the global scientific race to take people to Mars, and is part of the Mars 2117 Strategy.
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Ponix Farms Is Bringing Local Produce to Food Deserts In Atlanta
Ponix is a “food utility company” that creatively uses hydroponics technology to grow produce in solar-powered container farms, not unlike shipping containers.
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A New York Story: Discover the Hydroponic Pizza
Jeffrey Tucker, owner of Stone Bridge Farm in Schuylerville, NY and Stone Bridge Pizza & Salad in Manhattan, worked with Henry Gordon-Smith, Managing Director of Agritecture to build hydroponic greenhouses on a 425-acre farm, in upstate NY.
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The Second Generation Of Vertical Farming
The second generation of vertical farming is approaching. Here’s why it’s important.
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Bowery Opens Its Largest Indoor Farm In Baltimore
This Google Ventures-backed indoor farming startup just opened its biggest farm yet. The Baltimore farm is 3.5 times as large as Bowery’s formerly largest farm—and is the latest attempt to make indoor farming work as a way to disrupt the agricultural system.
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