Traditional farming faces a plethora of mounting challenges. One attempt at a solution is vertical farming – a new model designed to make food production more resilient. In Chengdu, capital of Southwest China's Sichuan Province, the Institute of Urban Agriculture at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences has built the world's first unmanned, ultra-high-rise indoor vertical farm, which went into operation at the end of 2023. Join People's Daily reporter Xu Zheqi and Kenyan student Michael Isoe Nyambira as they unpack the secrets of this vertical plant factory.
Source: China Everything
