A lot of the points around efficiency of traditional farming vs vertical farming are valid points. Over time however, you would expect vertical farms to catch up to the level of sophistication of traditional ag. The two practices are not like for like and shouldn't be compared as such - vertical farming is still in the 80:20 phase of development where as traditional agriculture is now in the hyper optimisation phase after 000s of years squeezing for incremental improvements. The primary benefits of urban vertical farming come from things like:
- Reduced transportation costs and emissions to people buying them due to being located close to urban centres
- No dependency on natural climate/weather, you can never have a bad yield!
- No need for pesticides that can get into the water table and damage local environments
- Allows for high accuracy estimations of yields that can build better forecasting models for supermarkets etc.
- Reduced transportation costs and emissions to people buying them due to being located close to urban centres
- No dependency on natural climate/weather, you can never have a bad yield!
- No need for pesticides that can get into the water table and damage local environments
- Allows for high accuracy estimations of yields that can build better forecasting models for supermarkets etc.