In many countries including Africa, food and water shortages are still serious, and the world’s population will continue to increase for a certain period of time It is predicted to increase to 10 billion people in 2060, 40 years later, and the world’s food and water shortage will continue to worsen will be Current agricultural practices account for 70% of global water use.
Also, excessive use of pesticides and herbicides pollute rivers, lakes, and groundwater, thereby threatening not only damage to animals and plants, such as fish, birds, but also human survival. In addition, the number of fish and aquatic plants is decreasing due to water pollution due to eutrophication such as nitrogen and phosphorus flowing into rivers by excessively spraying various fertilizers and nutrients to increase production and improve quality.
Due to reckless abuse of resources, climate change, microplastics, fine dust, etc., the land, water, and air are both unsuitable for plant production. This environment will hardly be improved. In a situation where arable land is also absolutely scarce, safe food production is essential for human survival.
As the most important constant in As an alternative farming method, we proposed a plant factory that applied hydroponics to a vertical multi-layer structure as an alternative farming method for future agriculture.
