ppt on a brand new concept of farming called vertical farming, its much better way of farming because of its advantages over traditional of farming

1. VERTICAL FARMING

2. VERTICAL
FARMING
Types
Advantages
History
Technologies
and devices
Problem

3. VERTICAL
FARMING
Types
Advantages
History
Technologies
and devices
Problem

4. VERTICAL FARMING
• Vertical farming is cultivating plant life within a skyscraper
greenhouse or on vertically inclined surfaces.
• The modern idea of vertical farming uses techniques similar to
glass houses, where natural sunlight can be augmented with
artificial lighting.

5. History
• One of the earliest drawings of a tall building that cultivates
food for the purposes of consumption was published as early
as Life Magazine 1909.
• This proposal can be seen in Rem Koolhaas's
Delirious New York. Koolhaas wrote that this 1909
theorem is
“'The Skyscraper as Utopian device for the production of
unlimited numbers of virgin sites on a metropolitan location'
(1994, 82).”

6. Types
Mixed-use
skyscrapers
Despommier
skyscrapers

7. Mixed-use skyscrapers
• It was proposed and built by architect Ken Yeang.
• He proposes that instead of hermetically sealed
mass-produced agriculture that plant life should be
cultivated within open air, mixed-use skyscrapers for climate
control and consumption

8. Despommier skyscrapers
• Despommier proposed that plant life is mass
produced within hermetically sealed, artificial
environments that have little to do with the outside world. In this
sense, they could be built anywhere regardless of the context.
• Despommier's concept of "The Vertical Farm" emerged in 1999
at Columbia University.

9. Technologies and Devices
Vertical farming relies on the use of various physical methods
to become effective. The most common technologies
suggested are:
• Greenhouse
• The Folkewall and other vertical
growing architectures
• Aeroponics / Hydroponics / Aquaponics
• Composting
• Grow light
• Phytoremediation
• Skyscraper
• Controlled-environment
agriculture

10. Advantages
• Preparation for the future
• Increased crop production
• Technologies and devices
• Energy production
• Urban growth
• Organic crops
• Protection from weather-related problems
• Conservation of resources
• Halting mass extinction
• Impact on human health

11. Problems
Economic
Pollution
Energy use

12. Economics
• A detailed cost analysis of start-up costs, operation costs, and
revenue has not been done.
• The extra cost of lighting, heating, and powering the vertical
farm may negate any of the cost benefits received by the
decrease in transportation expenses.
• The power needs of the vertical farm are met by fossil fuels,
the environmental effect may be a net loss.

13. Energy use
• During the growing season, the sun shines on a vertical
surface at an extreme angle such that much less light is
available to crops than when they are planted on flat land.
• Therefore, supplemental light, would be required in order to
obtain economically viable yields.
• As "The Vertical Farm" proposes a controlled environment,
heating and cooling costs will be at least as costly as any other
tower.

14. Pollution
• The power needs of the vertical farm are met by fossil fuels,
the environmental effect may be a net loss.
• Hydroponics greenhouses regularly
change the water, meaning there is
a large quantity of water containing
fertilizers and pesticides that must be
disposed of.
• Story greenhouses are already a nuisance to neighbours
because of light pollution.

15. I hope you it.

16. Himanshu Kotnala
Shubhankit Sharma