22. VERTICAL FARMING- (farm vertically)

♤ Vertical farming is a proposal to build high rise buildings within urban areas to enable the growing of food crops to help avoid the impending food shortage which is envisaged in the near future. It is thought that by the year 2050 the worlds population will have grown by a further 3 billion people and with more land needed than is available to grow the crops needed to feed everybody, ideas have to be considered to how these extra crops can be grown. Vertical farming could provide year round food production and better crop production, being able to yield more produce by area like for like compared to traditional horizontal farming. To put in a nutshell vertical farming is like a high rise greenhouse, sometimes having the label farmscrapers.