Maximum Yield Australia/New Zealand November/December 2018 | Page 40

BIGGEST
VERTICAL
FARMS
With an anticipated
worldwide food shortage
coming in 30 years, vertical
farms might be a way to help
increase the food supply.
Sally Nex takes a look at
10 of the world’s largest
(and planned) indoor farms
which produce millions of
pounds of produce annually.
T
he world is filling with
people, and fast: the latest
UN figures predict the world’s
population will hit 9.8 billion in
a little over 30 years time. And
about 70 per cent of those people
will live in urban environments.
That’s a double whammy for
food production: more mouths
to feed, but less land to do it
with as farmland disappears
under apartment blocks.
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