Is vertical farming the food production of the future or just an auxiliary option?
Lettuce growing in the cellar.
Source: nepszava.hu
Climate change, population growth, soil depletion are all challenges for agriculture. At a time when conditions are becoming more difficult, more food needs to be produced to meet the needs of a growing population. Vertical farms create the opportunity to grow the same quality of crops indoors, anywhere in the world, all year round, without chemicals and using much less water than conventional agriculture," says Anna Kis, meteorologist and PhD in Earth Sciences, in an analysis published on the environmental website Másfélfok.hu.
Germany has one of the largest vertical farms in Europe, but the concept is not unknown in countries such as Finland and the Czech Republic. The biggest on the continent is the Danish Nordic Harvest, which produces thousands of tonnes of food a year. The bedrock.farm is a 100 square metre cellar farm in the centre of Budapest, while the Tungsram vertical farm in Újpest grows salad greens and microgreens, as well as tomatoes, dill and coriander. In Debrecen, we also have the opportunity to visit one of these farms.
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