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In Asia, adoption of indoor agriculture has been driven by consumer demand for quality. [16] The Recirculating Farms Coalition is a US trade organization for hydroponic farmers. [17] A 2020 survey of indoor farming in the U.S. [18] found that indoor production was: 26% leafy greens, 20% herbs; 16% microgreens; 10% tomatoes; 28% other
BrightFarms is an American indoor farming company headquartered in Irvington, New York. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It grows and supplies local, non-GMO, pesticide-free, and fresh salad greens to supermarkets. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] The produce is grown in computer-controlled hydroponic greenhouses .
A 3.75-acre aquaponics facility that claims to be the first indoor salmon farm in the United States also includes an automated technology. [49] The aquaponic machine has made notable strides in the documenting and gathering of information regarding aquaponics. [citation needed]
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This is Eden Green Technology, one of the latest crop of indoor farming companies seeking their fortunes with green factories meant to pump out harvests of fresh produce all year long. The company ...
In September 2016, the AeroFarms Global Headquarters opened in a 70,000 square-foot facility in Newark, which is the largest indoor vertical farm in the world based on annual growing capacity. [5] The farm was built in a 75-year-old former steel mill facility and has the capacity to produce up to two million pounds of leafy greens per year. [6]
Lettuce grown in indoor vertical farming system. Vertical farming is the practice of growing crops in vertically and horizontally stacked layers. [1] It often incorporates controlled-environment agriculture, which aims to optimize plant growth, and soilless farming techniques such as hydroponics, aquaponics, and aeroponics. [1]
A farm with 200,000 salmon discharges more fecal waste than a city of 60,000 people. This waste is discharged directly into the surrounding aquatic environment, untreated, often containing antibiotics and pesticides." [9] There is also an accumulation of heavy metals on the benthos (seafloor) near the salmon farms, particularly copper and zinc ...