Topic
aeroponics
From the archive
Reporting from earlier editions of The Agrotech Daily. Figures, prices and policies may have changed since.
- Precision & digital, GlobalVertical farming: advantages, challenges and urban crop cultivationExplains how vertical farms grow crops in stacked layers under controlled conditions, which crops suit them, and the trade-off between land and water savings and high energy and set-up costs.
- Precision & digital, United KingdomAeroponic vs hydroponic vs aquaponic: choosing the right soil-free system for UK commercial productionHydroponics is the cheapest soil-free system to set up, aeroponics uses the least water and aquaponics adds fish revenue but grows fewer greens, based on UK commercial installations.
- Precision & digital, GlobalInnovations in vertical farming and sustainable urban agricultureVertical farms grow crops in stacked layers under controlled conditions, and urban agriculture brings food production into cities, with projects such as AeroFarms, Gotham Greens and Lufa Farms as examples.