Inside Singapore’s Huge Bet on Vertical Farming
2nd January 2021
Modern farming tries as hard as it can to make food production into an ‘outdoor factory floor’, but is critically dependent on uncontrollable outside factors such as how much sunshine, rainfall, and organic material are available. Putting everything together into an actual factory — stacking them deep and (hopefully) selling them cheap — has obvious attractions, but providing the sunshine, water, and organic material that God gives you for free raises costs, in most cases sufficiently to make the process not cost-effective. If these guys can solve those problems, then this just might work.