Announcements
"Tweeting Growers"
Top 5 -yesterday
- AUS: Vertical farm seeks $10 million as it breaks new ground in Queensland
- $5 million investment added to the portfolio:
- "Light is the most important growth factor in a vertical farm"
- “We want to make technology as simple, efficient and convenient as possible”
- Enabling the vertical farming sector to grow
Top 5 -last week
- "Cheap sensors for smarter farmers" help farmers make better decisions
- Modernization as a service, for new builds and retrofits alike
- "There are four drivers needed for successful ROI"
- Vertically cultivated mushrooms are blossoming in Brussels’ cellars
- US (SC): Installing cultivation systems for high-tech indoor farm
Top 5 -last month
- Study on environmental and cultivation factors affecting root systems in soilless grown plants
- Sweden: Instead of supplying microgreens, supplying self-made cultivation systems
- "Cheap sensors for smarter farmers" help farmers make better decisions
- What is the difference between hydroponics, aquaponics and aeroponics?
- Transition from hydroponics to gelponics
AgroUrbana:
South America: Leveraging vast distribution networks to build larger facility
“We’re building relationships and distribution channels that will allow us to grow into other regions. Latin America, from Mexico to Chile, we all speak the same language and share the same culture,” says Cristián Sjögren, co-founder and CEO of AgroUrbana. AgroUrbana was the first vertical farm established…
Korea Bizwire
Antarctica: Korean R&D team succeeds in growing tomatoes and watermelon
South Korea has succeeded in cultivating and harvesting a variety of fruits and vegetables such as watermelons and tomatoes in Antarctica, a first since its entry into the coldest continent on earth. The Korea Polar Research Institute said Wednesday that the indoor far with they, together with the Rural…
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The growth of leaf lettuce and bacterial communities in a closed aquaponics system
Aquaponics is a circulating and sustainable system that combines aquaculture and hydroponics and forms a symbiotic relationship between fish, plants, and microorganisms. It was hypothesized that feed alone could support plant growth, but the symbiosis with fish adds some beneficial effects on plant…
