Urban plant plant "AeroFarms" that realizes 95% water consumption by automatically controlling LED and mist

"Plant factory" which uses hydroponic culture to plant plants in the factory is actively researched because fresh vegetables can be safely and constantly harvested even in urban areas. Meanwhile, by blowing mist (fog) on ​​the root, a plant factory capable of raising plants without using a large amount of water as in hydroponics "AeroFarms"New plant cultivation method is attracting attention as a method to solve the water shortage which becomes serious in the 21st century.

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You can see how the plant factory of AeroFarms can cut water consumption by as much as 95% by watching the following movie.

This Farm of the Future Uses No Soil and 95% Less Water - YouTube


A town of New Jersey in New York State, USA.


At first sight, in a building like a factory ......


Huge plant planters are stacked in the vertical direction.


Vegetable illuminated by LED light.


This is a plant factory of AeroFarms.


It is also called "Vertical Farming (vertical cultivation)" from stacking up planters in the vertical direction.


David Rosenberg, CEO of AeroFarms, says, "Our mission is to create large scale farms in cities, which is also in towns around the world."


In a plant factory that can be built in the city, it is possible to cultivate fresh, tasty and nutritious vegetables.


The height of stacked plant planters is 30 feet (about 9 meters)


Each planter has a fan.


It is LED that prompts photosynthesis instead of sunlight.


A great feature of the plant factory of AeroFarms is the place to spray moisture by spraying mist to the plant to be cultivated. The point that we do not use soil is the same as general hydroponic culture, but because we do not soak the roots in water, there is an advantage that extremely small amounts of water can be used.


Wet the cloth that you recycled plastics with water ... ....


I will sow seeds of plants to grow on this. The roots extend under the cloth, but it is a mechanism to spray mist containing nutrients in the space where the roots grow.


According to Rosenberg CEO, it is possible to grow vegetables with high nutritional value and taste even without sunlight.


By cutting off yellow light that is not necessary for growing plants and combining lights of multiple wavelengths centered on red it is possible to lower the electric energy and raise the yield.


The light adjustment is fully automatic. As it is indoor, of course we do not have to worry about the weather.


With an automated lighting system, the time to harvest can be shortened to half of that when growing on a common farm. Moreover, we can constantly harvest vegetables of constant shape and quality.


The problem of starvation occurring on a global scale as the population increases can be solved by improving the harvesting rate of crops.


70% of the cause of water pollution is that there is data on wastewater on the farm. Also, 70% of the drinkable water is used as agricultural water, agricultureWater crisisIt is causing causes.


There is also data that one-third of soil that can grow crops in the past 40 years has disappeared, and there is also a problem that it is difficult to secure agricultural land on a global scale.


First of all, at Columbia University who proposed the concept of "Vertical Farming"Dixon · despommierThe professor thought that vertical farming would be able to solve the problem of shortage of agricultural land, water shortage, food shortage.


In vertical farms where you can harvest agricultural crops in the middle of the city there is a merit that not only can you compensate for shortage of agricultural land, but also fresh vegetables can be made in the consumption area.


It takes time and cost to deliver the harvested agricultural products to the consuming area, it also eliminates the need for transportation energy and greenhouse gas emissions, so it is good for the environment.


AeroFarms plans to build a huge plant factory than ever before.


On the site of the size of the soccer ground, we plan to install a planter vertically like this with such feeling.


The appearance looks like this. It seems to be a stylish building that will adapt to the city.


The vertical farming system of AeroFarms says it can suppress the amount of water by as much as 95% compared to general farms, and it is said that the yield can be increased by 75%. It is worth noting that vertical farming systems will spread and become established around the world, possessing the possibility to resolve agricultural lack shortage, water shortage, food crisis and environmental problems all at once.