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Taiwan Business TOPICS Exposed root system for hydroponically grown plants at YesHealth s iFarm in Taoyuan. Photo: Jules Quartly
Taiwan is uniquely placed to benefit from the application of information technology to agriculture, enabling it to help provide food for an expanding global population.
After becoming a world leader in semiconductors and other electronic products, Taiwan is now looking to smart agriculture as its next vine to climb. The island aims to supply much of the world’s fruit and vegetables within the next 30 years.
This might seem rather unlikely until you consider that the future of farming is not land and labor but factories and robots. Furthermore, Taiwan already possesses in abundance the tools that tomorrow’s smart farmers will use, including solar and advanced light technology, chemicals, gene editing, drones, smart sensors, software, algorithms, data mining, and big data.
The planst are grown under LED lights. Source: Nordic Harvest
One of the robots used in the facility. Source: Nordic Harvest Previous Next
Construction has been completed on Europe’s largest indoor vertical farm.
The facility will be capable of producing 1,000t of salads and herbs per year.
The plants are grown on 14 stacked shelves, equivalent to an area of more than 7,000 square metres, and are grown using hydroponics and LED lights.
The planst are grown under LED lights. Source: Nordic Harvest
As the system is in a highly controlled environment, no pesticides are required.
Danish-based Nordic Harvest has partnered with Taiwanese vertical farm tech company YesHealth Group to create the facility in Copenhagen Markets, on the outskirts of Denmark’s capital.