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China builds world's first 20-story robotic vertical farm (news.cgtn.com)

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[–] sooper_dooper_roofer@hexbear.net 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Vertical farming is believed to be the future of agriculture because it allows people to grow crops in upright trays and save precious land space for other human activities.

uhhh this sentence is wrong but yea
the least damaging "human activity" on land would be some type of traditional farming, the only thing "less damaging" than that would be letting it return to wilderness, which is not a human activity

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

To be fair, if we did confine farming to sckyscrapers we could use the vast amounts of land traditional farming occupies for parks, nature restoration, and so on. And China has been doing most in terms of rewilding globally, so there is that.

[–] sooper_dooper_roofer@hexbear.net -3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

okay but the only thing you'd be able to grow is lettuce and herbs. It's nice saving the amount of space those take up I suppose, but it's not a farming revolution either

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 6 months ago

That's not true, China is already growing a range of foods using indoor farms. The article mentions soybeans being grown in these farms, and and mushrooms are another example https://www.scmp.com/video/china/3158837/chinese-mushrooms-grown-smart-greenhouses-spur-multimillion-dollar-business