Vertical farming promises to revolutionize how we produce food in urban and extreme environments by optimizing plant growth through dynamic environmental control, particularly smart lighting that adjusts to electricity costs and plant needs.

…

In our increasingly crowded world, ensuring everyone has enough to eat calls for innovative approaches. Vertical farming, with its method of intensively growing plants indoors, presents a viable option. The major hurdle for its widespread adoption lies in addressing the high costs and energy demands of the lighting needed for plant growth. Scientists are now finding that adjusting light to cater to the unique requirements of each crop can promote stronger, healthier growth and simultaneously cut down on energy use.

“The biggest benefit of vertical farming systems is that healthy food can be grown much more closely to consumers in places where this is impossible otherwise: in mega-cities, in deserts, and in places that are cold and dark during large parts of the year,” said Dr. Elias Kaiser, first author of the article in Frontiers in Science.

This is an excerpt. Read the original post here