Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 71 views

    Vertical Farming

    Uploaded by

    Sohan Meharwade
    Vertical farming involves growing plants and crops within skyscrapers or on vertically inclined surfaces to maximize crop production in urban environments. Professor Dickson Despommier proposed growing crops vertically to better feed dense urban populations. Key advantages include protecting crops from weather problems, reducing transportation needs, and allowing cities to expand food production without destroying forests. However, critics argue that the initial costs are very high, energy use for lighting could be excessive, and pollution may be greater than traditional farming due to high energy demands of vertical farms.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PPT, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Flag for inappropriate content

    You might also like

    Vertical Farming

    Uploaded by

    Sohan Meharwade
    71 views12 pages
    Vertical farming involves growing plants and crops within skyscrapers or on vertically inclined surfaces to maximize crop production in urban environments. Professor Dickson Despommier proposed growing crops vertically to better feed dense urban populations. Key advantages include protecting crops from weather problems, reducing transportation needs, and allowing cities to expand food production without destroying forests. However, critics argue that the initial costs are very high, energy use for lighting could be excessive, and pollution may be greater than traditional farming due to high energy demands of vertical farms.

    Original Description:

    Copyright

    © © All Rights Reserved

    Available Formats

    PPT, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    Report this Document
    Vertical farming involves growing plants and crops within skyscrapers or on vertically inclined surfaces to maximize crop production in urban environments. Professor Dickson Despommier proposed growing crops vertically to better feed dense urban populations. Key advantages include protecting crops from weather problems, reducing transportation needs, and allowing cities to expand food production without destroying forests. However, critics argue that the initial costs are very high, energy use for lighting could be excessive, and pollution may be greater than traditional farming due to high energy demands of vertical farms.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PPT, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Flag for inappropriate content
    Download as ppt, pdf, or txt
    71 views12 pages

    Vertical Farming

    Uploaded by

    Sohan Meharwade
    Vertical farming involves growing plants and crops within skyscrapers or on vertically inclined surfaces to maximize crop production in urban environments. Professor Dickson Despommier proposed growing crops vertically to better feed dense urban populations. Key advantages include protecting crops from weather problems, reducing transportation needs, and allowing cities to expand food production without destroying forests. However, critics argue that the initial costs are very high, energy use for lighting could be excessive, and pollution may be greater than traditional farming due to high energy demands of vertical farms.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PPT, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Flag for inappropriate content
    Download as ppt, pdf, or txt
    of 12

    VERTICAL FARMING

    PRESENTED By:

    Sohan P.Meharwade
    Introduction
    Origin of the idea
    Advantages
    Plans
    Criticism
    • The word VERTICAL FARMING was coined by Gilbert Ellis Bailey in 1915.

    • Economically cultivating plants within SKYSCRAPERS OR ON


    VERTICALLY INCLINED SURFACE.

    • Latest version of this idea is given by Prof. Dickson Despommier's.


    Origin Of this idea

    Prof. Dickson Despommier's


     Feed the population of about
    20,00,000 people using 13 acres
    of usable rooftop gardens but
    only 2% would be fed. Hence
    he came up with a new idea of
    VERTICAL FARMING
    Functions
     Each floor will have its own
    watering and nutrient monitoring
    systems.
     There will be sensors for every
    single plant that tracks how much
    and what kinds of nutrients the
    plant has absorbed.
     We will even have systems to
    monitor plant diseases by
    employing DNA chip
    technologies that detect the
    presence of various viral and
    bacterial infections.
     A gas chromatograph will tell us
    when to pick the plant by
    analyzing which flavenoids the
    plants or crops contain.
    Advantages
     Preparation for the future:- • The controlled growing environment
    Estimated that in 2050 80% of world reduces the need for pesticides.
    population will live in urban areas &
    world population will increase by 3 • Vertical farming would cause very little
    billion people. harm to wildlife.
     When the crops are grown no
    • Impact on human health:- Toxic
    transportation may be required as the
    chemicals commonly used as pesticides
    crops will be sold in same infrastructure
    and fungicides, severe injuries that can
    where they are grown hence no
    occur when using large industrial farming
    spoilage.
    equipment.

     Protection from weather-related • Urban growth:- Could allow cities to


    problems:-Changes in rainfall timings, expand without destroying forests while
    and temperature could diminish India’s remaining largely self sufficient food wise.
    agricultural output by 30 percent by the
    end of the century & Three recent • Energy production:- Methane digesters
    floods that occurred in U.S (in 1993, could be built on site to transform the
    2007 and 2008) billions of dollars. organic waste generated at the farm into
    biogas.
    Developers and local
    governments in cities
    like Abu Dhabi(UAE),
    Dongton(China), New
    York, Las Vegas, Los
    Angeles
    ,Beijing,Bangalore have
    expressed serious
    interest in establishing a
    vertical farm.
    In 2012, the world's first
    commercial vertical
    farm was opened in
    Singapore.
    Design of vertical farm in Singapore
    Criticism
    1) Economics:- A detailed cost analysis of start-up costs, operation costs, and
    revenue has not been done.
     The extra cost of lighting, and powering the vertical farm may go higher.
     Initial building costs will be easily over $100 million, for a 60 hectare vertical
    farm in cities like Tokyo, Mumbai, Dubai etc.
    2) Energy use:- when the sun shines on a vertical surface at an extreme angle
    such that much less light is available to crops than when they are planted on
    flat land hence supplementary lights are needed. Hence increasing the
    expenses.
    3) Pollution:- With vertical farms requiring much greater energy per kilogram
    of produce, mainly through increased lighting, the amount of pollution
    created will be much higher than that from field produce.
     www.verticalfarming.com

     www.wikipedia.com

     Vertical farming by Dickson Despommier's


    Thank You
    Queries…

    You might also like