Review on Vertical Farming in Agricultural Area
Uddeshya Tyagi
Department of Horticulture, SHUATS, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Munaziha Bashir
Department of Horticulture, SHUATS, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Nishant Nayak
Department of Horticulture, SHUATS, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Saket Mishra
Department of Horticulture, SHUATS, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Akhilesh Kushwaha *
Department of Horticulture, SHUATS, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Shashi Kant Ekka
Department of Horticulture, SHUATS, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Reena Kujur
Department of Biological Science, SHUATS, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
Vertical farming has the capability to produce the food or any other services in urban areas which are related to it. The goals and vision of vertical farming is planned with the aim of generating sustainable cities around the world. The recent traditional farming approaches due to an imbalance in the environment. At the end it appears that the concept of the vertical farm in the city centre of urban area could solve various issues that is related to food production and environmental degradation. No crop harvests would fail by severe weather like droughts, floods and hurricanes etc. Hence the vertical farming aims at the making of the sustainable city environment that inspires the people to live there for the safe and the healthy environment that encourages the people to live there for the safe and healthy environment, cleaner air, safe drinking water, safe usage of public liquid waste, new employment chances, vertical farming has the benefit of a seasonally wet and warm weather. They can easily minimize cooling and heating water. Use of indoor temperature and artificial light and also have a plentiful amount of natural resources such as long hours of sunlight and enough water from daily rain to cultivate.
Keywords: Artificial light, controlled environment, indoor farming
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