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Australia: Finding new approaches to vertical growing

Australia, which has the opposite season with Korea, is a traditional agricultural and livestock export powerhouse. Along with rice, wheat exports, the world's two largest food crops, are second in the world, and beef exports are second in the world. Because the farmland is so vast and the climate range varies from temperate to tropical, it is advantageous for the production of agricultural and livestock products. The opposite season to the northern hemisphere, where consumer countries are concentrated, also creates favorable conditions for overseas agricultural exports. In short, it is Australia that serves as a natural agricultural production base.

Australia has recently been eager to combine agriculture and information and communication technology (ICT). This is based on the judgment that traditional agriculture will no longer be able to overcome the impact of climate change. It was confirmed in a recent Australian local report that the main agent of the change was agtech start-ups. The idea that agtech is a concept that is mainly welcomed in countries with poor agricultural conditions, such as Korea and Israel, was wrong.

Vertical farms are being tried in a new way in Australia. On the other hand, most of the large vertical farm companies in the United States have entered bankruptcy, and they have developed a vertical farm module that is as small as a refrigerator. Here, high-end restaurant vegetables such as edible flowers and micro-green (ultra-small leafy vegetables) were grown and received high prices. In addition, by allowing vertical farms to be stacked on warehouse shelves with forklifts, it opened the way for economies of scale to be realized at a low cost.

Read more at Maeil Business Newspaper