Pure Harvest Smart Farms and PlanTFarm have announced the official opening of the redeveloped Al Ain farm, which will serve as a multi-use, and high-tech controlled environment agriculture (CEA) farming facility.
One of the advancements introduced by this collaboration is a commercial-scale pilot of resource-efficient animal fodder production. The Gulf region relies heavily on imported animal feed, but the new smart farm utilizes PlanTFarm's state-of-the-art technology to produce fresh, nutritious fodder using 95% less water per kilogram compared to traditional farming methods. If the agronomics prove to be sustainable, Pure Harvest plans to scale up the solution and to offer co-located, integrated fresh feed supply across the region.
The hybrid farming technology across this site is equally setup to enable the propagation, production and cultivation of a new range of Pure Harvest premium Korean strawberries.
At the opening ceremony, which took place onsite on Thursday, February 20th, CEO and Founder of Pure Harvest, Sky Kurtz said: "I'm delighted to see this ambitious, first-of-its-kind collaboration between Pure Harvest and PlanTFarm come to fruition. We pride ourselves on choosing the 'right tool for the job', and PlanTFarm's innovative growing solution makes new and innovative Korean strawberries, water-efficient animal feed, and plant propagation R&D possible – all under one roof. We believe that embedding vertical farms within a high-tech greenhouse 'campus' enables us to capture the significant production advantages this solution provides, while mitigating its economic disadvantages – resulting in a compelling, economic, and sustainable integrated farming solution."
