[ExI] farm country, was: RE: kiwis keeping it real

[Adrian Tymes]

On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 9:07 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Indoor farming will always be specialty high-value crops, rather than a
> means of feeding the masses.
>

That's the claim, but I wonder about that.  Feeding the masses requires
growing at least one of rice, corn, and/or wheat in volume.  Almost
anything else can be dismissed as a specialty crop, given the relative
amounts grown (though sugar cane and soybeans are up there).

So then you get research projects like
https://inhabitat.com/aeroponic-vertical-farm-high-yield-terraced-rice-paddies-for-the-philipines/
that
are all about reducing energy and water use.
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