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China: Smart indoor farming helps scale up edible mushroom output
48+ min ago (186+ words) Intelligent technologies are helping mushroom producers in eastern China to scale up their operations, creating growing environments that can ensure year-round production and even yield varieties that would otherwise not be possible in the region. The indoor vertical mushroom farms…...
New Delhi startup develops India's largest indoor aeroponic saffron farm
48+ min ago (272+ words) Vertical Farm Daily At a time when consumers are becoming increasingly conscious about what they consume, Rootious Organics, an emerging agri-tech startup, is redefining how saffron is cultivated, perceived, and delivered Founded by entrepreneur Varshitkumar Piparotar and co-founded by Himanshu…...
UAEU launches smart mushroom farm to boost food security
48+ min ago (163+ words) Vertical Farm Daily United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) has launched a Smart Mushroom House at its Al Foah Research Farm, aiming to support food security efforts and give students hands-on research experience. The new facility uses Internet of Things (Io…...
UK: Margate entrepreneur launches microgreens operation supplying local restaurants from indoor unit
1+ day, 20+ min ago (225+ words) When Margate mum-of-two Vanessa Leppard found herself out of work, she took her food industry knowledge and her love of good nutrition to create her own business. Vanessa, 33, was struggling to find a new job, so instead took the opportunity…...
US (IN): Purdue University offers hydroponic crop production workshop
18+ hour, 27+ min ago (104+ words) Vertical Farm Daily Learn the fundamentals of hydroponic crop production at the Hydroponic Crop Production Workshop, offered Saturday, September 19, from 8: 30 a. m at Purdue University's Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture Greenhouse. This hands-on workshop is ideal for those interested in…...
Japanese companies join forces to power strawberry growing
18+ hour, 27+ min ago (329+ words) Vertical Farm Daily Sumitomo Corporation has entered into a capital and business alliance with Harvest X Inc Harvest X has developed the world's first robot capable of automatically pollinating strawberries and is advancing automated cultivation solutions for plant factories by…...
Massachusetts grower now controls over 50% of North America's indoor lettuce market
18+ hour, 27+ min ago (230+ words) Vertical Farm Daily For Paul Sellew, founder and CEO of Little Leaf Farms, innovation isn't about chasing the next tech play It's about something far more grounded: building a better system While some in the indoor farming space have prioritized…...
How a $5 million UAE vertical farm tackles food security
1+ day, 20+ min ago (136+ words) Vertical Farm Daily The UAE imports the vast majority of what it eats And Roman Ulyanov, founder and CEO of high-end vertical farm Greeneration, believes that it is a vulnerability the country can no longer afford to ignore " and he…...
US (TX): Houston farmer teaches marginalized communities to grow and sustain themselves
19+ hour, 26+ min ago (201+ words) Vertical Farm Daily For CC Brooks, hydroponic farming is equally, or even more, about shifting power than just about growing food "My number one rule and the number one thing you always hear me say is, 'If you control the…...
Ahold Delhaize is transitioning to Product Carbon Footprinting
20+ hour, 17+ min ago (489+ words) Supply chain fairness: Groceries Code Adjudicator to move to Defra To strengthen fairness across the UK's food supply chain and better support farmers and food producers, responsibility for the Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA) will transfer from the Department for Business…...