Climate-controlled farms such as these grow crops around the clock and in every kind of weather. Each acre in the greenhouse yields as much produce as 10 outdoor acres, uses 95% less of water than traditional agriculture, and cuts the need for chemicals by 97 percent.

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image showing Climate-controlled farms such as these grow crops around the clock and in every kind of weather. Each acre in the greenhouse yields as much produce as 10 outdoor acres, uses 95% less of water than traditional agriculture, and cuts the need for chemicals by 97 percent.

beluuuuuuga on April 4th, 2021 at 20:32 UTC »

Growing more with less is one of the key points to solving food insecurity in the future.

Edit : A fair and honest view point on the subject but a farmer.

Edit 2: of course it may be more effective in some places more than others. I don't want to hide the negatives. this person puts the positives and negative into perspective really well.

RMtz97 on April 4th, 2021 at 21:05 UTC »

Currently doing my bachelor's project on robotics for precision agriculture. It is an amazing topic.

Edit: hey everyone, seems this comment exploded. First of all, a lot of people seem to have interest in what the project is about. We are currently building a CNC type robot for 3D mapping using Lidar and stereo cameras. While this can have many other applications outside precision agriculture, our goal is to establish a base platform that other generations of students can build upon for more specific things, such as plant classification and detection of problems in crops.

A lot of people have many questions also regarding things like cost efficiency, and how feasible it is to do this today. Being honest, I don't have the answer to all the questions. I didnt study precision agriculture per se, I'm just a (soon to be) mechatronics engineer that decided to part take on a project one of my professors had in mind. However, as every new technology, I can say that it is going to take some years for these methods become more mainstream. For now, it just an interesting research topic.

Also, while I would love to show the resulting thesis document with results and everything, uni keeps the IP of everything at the end, and I don't think they would be very happy with me if I release it to a bunch of strangers on reddit ;p.

1nGirum1musNocte on April 4th, 2021 at 21:11 UTC »

Could you do this on converted container ships?