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To develop a farm or to develop a technology, that is the question. As I pondered the topic for this round, I felt drawn to delve into a significant hurdle frequently encountered by verticalfarming companies. “ Are you a technology company or a farming company? ”
The term is meant to capture the nuance between different agricultural methods that are often promoted as competing against each other, [such as verticalfarms and greenhouses,] when in fact, they overlap, and various combinations of them can reap greater environmental, economic, and social benefits than any one solution alone.
A worker inspects plants in one of Plenty’s verticalfarms. raised to date Verticalfarms require significant capital to operate, especially when they’re just starting out. Technology providers : Companies that develop equipment and technology that they sell to farm operators. Credit: Why Farm It.
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