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Indoor farming is a method involves cultivating plants indoors, free from the constraints of traditional agriculture such as weather fluctuations and limited land availability. The concept of indoor farming emerged as a solution to the challenges faced by conventional farming methods. With unpredictable weather patterns and urbanization taking ...
Intensive animal farming, industrial livestock production, and macro-farms, [1] also known as factory farming, [2] is a type of intensive agriculture, specifically an approach to mass animal husbandry designed to maximize production while minimizing costs. [3]
The Museum of English Rural Life, also known as The MERL, is a museum, library and archive dedicated to recording the changing face of farming and the countryside in England. The museum is run by the University of Reading , and is situated in Redlands Road to the rear of the institution's London Road Campus near to the centre of Reading in ...
For indoor gardening, one of the most important requirements is the amount of light energy striking the surface of the plant ("incident light"), which can be measured in lux (lux = lumens / area illuminated in square metres). For indoor use, higher lighting efficiency produces more lumens per unit of area with less power and less waste heat.
Oishii is an American vertical farming company that grows strawberries. [1] [2] Founded in 2016 by Hiroki Koga and Brendan Somerville, Oishii produces the "omakase" berry, which launched in 2018 at grocers in New York City. [3] [4] Originally selling for $50 per a tray of eight strawberries, the company cut prices to $20 per tray in 2022.
Click and Grow was founded by Mattias Lepp, in Estonia, in 2009. In 2010, he won a local Ajujaht business idea competition with his idea for a 'Smart Flowerpot'. [1] The idea took two years to develop before it was sold as a product.
International English Language Testing System (IELTS / ˈ aɪ. ɛ l t s /) [6] is an international standardized test of English language proficiency for non-native English language speakers. It is jointly managed by the British Council, IDP and Cambridge English, [6] and was established in 1989. IELTS is one of the major English-language tests ...
Victoria amazonica (giant Amazon waterlilies) in a large greenhouse at the Saint Petersburg Botanical Garden. A greenhouse is a structure that is designed to regulate the temperature and humidity of the environment inside.