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- US (NJ): AeroFarms headquarter sold to new property owner
- Bringing multi-level, silo-style indoor farming to Spain
- Why choose bespoke LED grow lighting?
- Plant–environment microscopy tracks interactions of Bacillus subtilis with plant roots across the entire rhizosphere
- Hands-on education and career readiness: a container farm as a classroom
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Vertical farms as the interface between local food production and urban energy balance
“Particularly in cold and moderate climates, we can use vertical farms to create a sort of electrical or energy flywheel to balance cities’ energy while also producing food locally,” said Luuk Graamans during his talk at the Vertical Farming Conference. Luuk is a PhD researcher at Wageningen University &…
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India: Startup assists farmers in using renewable energy at village-level
AgriVijay, a Pune-based agritech startup founded by Vimal Panjwani and Shobha Chanchlani in the midst of the Covid outbreak back in June 2020, has developed a marketplace for renewable energy products connecting farmers and rural households. With a vision focussed on increasing farmer savings and…
Measuring fast to save money: photosynthesis sensor indispensable in energy crisis?
The question of what the crop does when there is a change in lighting cannot be answered precisely by growers without sensors. The photosynthesis sensor is an important sensor for visualizing this. It measures the photosynthesis efficiency of a crop in real-time. With the shift from HPS to LED or hybrid…
