The future of Farming.

[Kimonoe]

Many agricultural commodities such as corn, soybeans, meat, eggs and many more must be imported from other countries, when 15 or 20 years ago my country exports the commodity, and of course this is a sad fact, this is because of the many agricultural land that changes functions become an apartment building, park, tourist attractions and so on. Naturally, if the price of agricultural materials is more expensive.

The government needs to make farming an encouraged business to do for the people and they must also focus on this agricultural aspect because that's the sole dependent of economy markets and human sustainability, farming must be done both on the rural and urban settings, a country must bot be too dependent on importation of food items from other countries when they are meant to encourage their young adults to engage in farming by making adequate provisions for their start up needs to encourage them venture into farming, this will help the country eradicate poverty, hunger and disease, other countries may also depends on their productions.

It's sad to see what used to be an exporting country and now an importing country, agricultural land is getting narrower coupled with human resources who are less enthusiastic about farming, especially for young people, because they think farming is not a cool job. therefore, with the development of technology, in terms of production, the government should encourage agricultural technology that can increase production even though agricultural land is decreasing. or in my country where large areas can open up land for the development of agricultural areas

[Davian144]

It's sad to see what used to be an exporting country and now an importing country, agricultural land is getting narrower coupled with human resources who are less enthusiastic about farming, especially for young people, because they think farming is not a cool job. therefore, with the development of technology, in terms of production, the government should encourage agricultural technology that can increase production even though agricultural land is decreasing. or in my country where large areas can open up land for the development of agricultural areas

Some people still only consider their prestige in life so they don't want to work on existing agricultural land and there are even some people who are willing to sell agricultural land to buy other buildings that they don't use to make any production. That is why several exporting countries have previously become importing countries at this point and I am not at all surprised by this because now most people prefer to work in a relaxed manner without wanting to work harder due to the prestige being considered.

[mvdheuvel1983]

Land is becoming lesser and not very available for agriculture as before, There is a lot of Urbanization going on and many land space are being built on to carter for the increasing number of persons. There will be lesser organic foods available for consumption as the worlds population increase and farming space reduces. Because of this, there now has to be an improvement in farming methods and I personally consider vertical Farming to be the future of organic food farming.

In vertical farming, Plants are grown in stacked layers under controlled conditions like green house farming.
In vertical farming,

The is timely topic that is on point. There are many arguments and debates about whether organic food is really healthy or safe. It is not in my place to join the argument but my say on this is that we know that many of the so called farm veggies circulating in the western markets are all inorganic. They have been "forced" to grow a certain way, under certain conditions, with certain chemicals so that they look and taste how they want. One of the root causes of degenerative diseases aside hereditary is the food. Most of these inorganic food are unhealthy, they are making people obsese, causing a lot of heart and health problem. I sincerely fear for the future of farming in the west because nobody seems to care. All the health organization are getting funding from these unethical farmers so they keep my lips shut. If you want organic food plant them in your farm with your own hands.

[Oluwa-btc]

Land is becoming lesser and not very available for agriculture as before, There is a lot of Urbanization going on and many land space are being built on to carter for the increasing number of persons. There will be lesser organic foods available for consumption as the worlds population increase and farming space reduces. Because of this, there now has to be an improvement in farming methods and I personally consider vertical Farming to be the future of organic food farming.

In vertical farming, Plants are grown in stacked layers under controlled conditions like green house farming.
In vertical farming,

The is timely topic that is on point. There are many arguments and debates about whether organic food is really healthy or safe. It is not in my place to join the argument but my say on this is that we know that many of the so called farm veggies circulating in the western markets are all inorganic. They have been "forced" to grow a certain way, under certain conditions, with certain chemicals so that they look and taste how they want. One of the root causes of degenerative diseases aside hereditary is the food. Most of these inorganic food are unhealthy, they are making people obsese, causing a lot of heart and health problem. I sincerely fear for the future of farming in the west because nobody seems to care. All the health organization are getting funding from these unethical farmers so they keep my lips shut. If you want organic food plant them in your farm with your own hands.

I'm in so much love crops that gets it sunlight from the sun directly and enough manured soil not the the soil filled with chemicals which are unfriendly to the human organs when consumed. Lately, people do whatever it takes to survive even if affects them fellow humans.
I so much love it when it comes to growing my own crops, ( Waterleafs, Cassava, Melon, Yam, Plantains, Avocados, Papaya and Banana )

At times I wish I can make supplies and solve that for the west, because due to this war they've had shortage of what they import from Russia n Ukraine. We can provide solutions for the west. Africans have enough arable lands for farming, but they lack equipment to crop's and lack's money to fund for seeds. They can form a partnership between themselves and transportation wouldn't be difficult to achieve too. The news I read lately about Bill Gate burst my internal bubbles, what's produced in his lab are extremely harmful to the human body but yet, I still ain't see nobody tackling the MF!

[tygeade]

Many agricultural commodities such as corn, soybeans, meat, eggs and many more must be imported from other countries, when 15 or 20 years ago my country exports the commodity, and of course this is a sad fact, this is because of the many agricultural land that changes functions become an apartment building, park, tourist attractions and so on. Naturally, if the price of agricultural materials is more expensive.

The government needs to make farming an encouraged business to do for the people and they must also focus on this agricultural aspect because that's the sole dependent of economy markets and human sustainability, farming must be done both on the rural and urban settings, a country must bot be too dependent on importation of food items from other countries when they are meant to encourage their young adults to engage in farming by making adequate provisions for their start up needs to encourage them venture into farming, this will help the country eradicate poverty, hunger and disease, other countries may also depends on their productions.

The solution is so simple and yet people do not look for it, just don't tax them for their income and that's it. However, we also need to be done with all this huge farms to feed a nation thing, it's just getting boring, and the land we have in every nation is enough to actually be sheltering everyone as well, and we can produce cars for every single person who wants it, and we can do railways and bus stops everywhere for free. People are not realizing this and that makes me insanely angry.

We are spending billions, even trillions on tax as a world, and what do we get in return? Idiotic things, hell war is still a thing, how primitive is that. Just have a town size warehouse filled with vertical farming and you feed a whole nation, costs less than a billion dollars per year, it's real and it's there and yet we don't do it.

[DrBeer]

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sad to say this is not the case to most of the country. here in ours, i’ll hide it in name of Philippines, it’s the other way around. Philippines is very rich of its agriculture, lands are never been a problem It’s how they maximize it and how the government support the local farmers. Sad to say, the government do import goods from China instead of developing farmlands. Local farmers are being left behind and foods are increasingly expensive. The coubtry which is supposed to be producers turned out to be the biggest consumer.

Now, what you're describing is going to take more and more momentum. China has huge problems, and now China is trying hard to force neighboring countries to buy Chinese products.... save china with your wallets. Many governments are supporting this, probably through corruption schemes. China even managed to "persuade" the BRICS countries to switch to the yuan, although they promised a market for local currencies of the participating countries. But China's supporters are trying to beat into everyone's heads that "it's all the dollar's fault", purely to cover up the rescue of China's economy.... It is a pity that your country suffers from populism and lies. the Chinese domination must be stopped, the yuanization of the world is a real evil!

[Plaguedeath]

Some people still only consider their prestige in life so they don't want to work on existing agricultural land and there are even some people who are willing to sell agricultural land to buy other buildings that they don't use to make any production. That is why several exporting countries have previously become importing countries at this point and I am not at all surprised by this because now most people prefer to work in a relaxed manner without wanting to work harder due to the prestige being considered.

People will do anything in order to make money, if they can make a lot money in agriculture, they wouldn't sell their lands and work in someone companies. Prestige could be one of many reasons, but it's not really the main reason. I believe there are many risks or reasons why they're not continue their farm.

There's no problem if exporting countries become importing countries, this mean the other countries are better for farming about the cost, effectiveness, weather etc, while importing countries are make money from other sectors.

[dothebeats]

Necessity is the mother of invention. We are still not at that point where we are out of farming lands. But the situation is quite tough now NGL. Vertical farming could be a solution to this. People will come up with more ideas to maximize farming. To be honest, farming has a great impact on the economy. If your country can produce enough food, then life will be much easy.

Food is the most essential substance in our life. We consume food every day no matter what. So focusing on that will be the best for everyone. But in order to make life easy, we do need other industries too. So I am not against urbanization if people can find more ways to maximize farming. Vertical farming is one step towards that. But in the future, we may see more ways to do it more efficiently.

The sad thing about this is that some countries that have agriculture as the center of their food and economic system is receiving little to no help from their own government. Moreover, many of the farming lands are rapidly being bought and used for industrial development. Due to this many farmers are choosing to do other jobs.

[tjtonmoy]

The sad thing about this is that some countries that have agriculture as the center of their food and economic system is receiving little to no help from their own government. Moreover, many of the farming lands are rapidly being bought and used for industrial development. Due to this many farmers are choosing to do other jobs.

This is exactly what's happening here in our country. I live in Bangladesh and we are very much an agricultural country. But recently we are suffering a lot due to inflation. It's a cycle that has been going on. The price of other goods is affecting all the industry. Especially the farming sector. Farmers are selling goods at low prices, then the people running the syndicates are buying them and then storing them to increase the price and sell them at higher prices later. And you can understand the effects of inflation already. In order to buy other goods the farmers are paying so much that they are unable to buy farming items later on. This cycle is decreasing farming for the farmers. In order to survive, farmers are moving towards other works. This is making it so hard for everyone. And yes, the government is doing nothing about it.

[Hydrogen]

Ensures Consistent Crop Production
One of the biggest benefits of vertical arming lies in the fact that it is extremely reliable. That means, when you opt for vertical farming, you can be assured of getting consistent crop production throughout the year. This is further made possible because vertical farming doesn’t usually rely on the weather, allowing you to cultivate crops without having to get worked up about adverse weather conditions.
Uses Space Optimally
Reduces Usage of Water
One of the biggest perks of vertical farming lies in the fact that it follows a Hydroponic growing process whereby only 10% of the water is used. This mode of farming also uses fewer fertilizers and nutrients when compared to conventional methods. Since the water is completely clean even after usage, it can be duly reused thereby reducing the total cost and cutting down on waste.
Cuts Down on Transport Cost
You can always choose to grow crops in an area where your customer lives thereby reducing transportation costs, carbon dioxide emissions, and the constant need for refrigerating your produce. At the end of the day, this not only contributes to the freshness of your products but also makes them incredibly profitable.
Doesn’t Involve Chemicals or Pesticides
When you grow food on a vertical farm, you have the chance of completely cutting down on the need to invest in pesticides. That is because your farming is practiced in a controlled environment that prohibits the entry of pests.
Limits Occupational Hazards
With indoor farming in place, no farmer is exposed to the hazards associated with using heavy farming gear. They are also well-protected from a range of ailments like malaria, issues from harmful chemicals, and the likes of it.Since this mode of farming does not affect trees and animals around inland zones, it is also an excellent way to promote biodiversity.
Larger Produce
Probably the biggest benefit of vertical farming is the fact that it helps produce more crops in general. As we already know, this mode of farming enables cultivars to produce crops consistently in a small area. Interestingly, it also boosts the amount of produce.

What do you think about Vertical Farming, do you agree that it is the future of farming really?
https://www.conserve-energy-future.com/advantages-disadvantages-vertical-farming.php

This process works well for producing lettuce. It can produce a fully mature crop from seed in 4 or 5 weeks. The heads of lettuce are small and compact. Their root systems are small making it easy to cluster a high density of them within a small volume of space. There are many successful pilot programs which have demonstrated the viability of this approach in real world application.

However, this approach may not scale to suit agricultural production of other crops. There is an open question as to whether staple foods like corn, wheat or rice - which satisfy a majority of the worlds demands can be produced using these methods.

[Ozero]

Today, urban land is expensive, scarce, often polluted, and hardly cultivable. Not to mention, even if we shorten the supply chain as much as possible, agricultural products are very perishable. More especially, when we can see that the short-term food shortages during the recent COVID-19 lockdown were most clearly felt among the working class, who make up the vast majority of society, it shows that the sustainable agriculture of the future will not be organic, local, or "natural," but industrialized, scalable, and serving as many people as possible.

Vertical farming can slightly improve the food problem in the city, but in general it will not solve the problem. It is necessary to rationally use the lands that are suitable for agriculture. But the problem with food vseravno will exist. After all, the population of the planet is increasing, and the area of fertile land is constantly decreasing for various reasons. The only hope is for the further development of technologies that will make it possible to obtain food in non-traditional ways.

[xSkylarx]

Today, urban land is expensive, scarce, often polluted, and hardly cultivable. Not to mention, even if we shorten the supply chain as much as possible, agricultural products are very perishable. More especially, when we can see that the short-term food shortages during the recent COVID-19 lockdown were most clearly felt among the working class, who make up the vast majority of society, it shows that the sustainable agriculture of the future will not be organic, local, or "natural," but industrialized, scalable, and serving as many people as possible.

Vertical farming can slightly improve the food problem in the city, but in general it will not solve the problem. It is necessary to rationally use the lands that are suitable for agriculture. But the problem with food vseravno will exist. After all, the population of the planet is increasing, and the area of fertile land is constantly decreasing for various reasons. The only hope is for the further development of technologies that will make it possible to obtain food in non-traditional ways.

But it is still a solution, even for a small time, to produce your own food or the possibility that anyone can plant plants in the city that produce food, but in the long run we still need huge acres of land to be able to plant crops and harvest tons of them so that people can eat them. That is why it is better to somewhat lessen our food waste so that others can eat too.

[uswa56]

Today, urban land is expensive, scarce, often polluted, and hardly cultivable. Not to mention, even if we shorten the supply chain as much as possible, agricultural products are very perishable. More especially, when we can see that the short-term food shortages during the recent COVID-19 lockdown were most clearly felt among the working class, who make up the vast majority of society, it shows that the sustainable agriculture of the future will not be organic, local, or "natural," but industrialized, scalable, and serving as many people as possible.

Vertical farming can slightly improve the food problem in the city, but in general it will not solve the problem. It is necessary to rationally use the lands that are suitable for agriculture. But the problem with food vseravno will exist. After all, the population of the planet is increasing, and the area of fertile land is constantly decreasing for various reasons. The only hope is for the further development of technologies that will make it possible to obtain food in non-traditional ways.

So far, there has been no right solution for global development, which has disrupted many of the dawn's lands because of buildings or infrastructure built by a country to accommodate the world's increasingly dense population. Vertical farming is indeed quite effective, but it is unable to meet large needs .
I think maybe in the future there will be a solution for this when there is a shortage of food, for sure there will be a solution or a way out.

[Patrol69]

According to the data of the World Bank, the population is increasing every year at a large rate, due to the increase in population, due to the construction of their new residences, agricultural land or forest areas are being made suitable for human habitation, as a result, the amount of agricultural land in the world is decreasing day by day and the amount of vegetation is decreasing, resulting in global warming.  is going and the amount of oxygen is decreasing. To come out of this problem, experts are recommending extensive planting of trees and alternative farming methods. Alternative farming methods generally refer to greenhouse farming. As the temperature and humidity can be controlled naturally in the greenhouse process, it is possible to get more yield in this process. But this process is not yet widely accepted globally, people are still not using this technology much. If people use this technology, the pressure of growing crops on the agricultural land will be reduced a lot.

[Youngkhngdiddy]

 Vertical farming may have a lot of benefits but It is not yet  the future of farming as it would require high cost of operations to yield a quantity of produce that would pale in comparison to conventional farming methods especially in areas with natural irrigation, to my best of knowledge yes
Vertical farming is already being practiced in many parts of the world for example the States, it has a whole lot of advantages compared to it's demerits, really because it saves land which is used for other purpose, though the main problem here is cost of setting it up which is hindering some countries especially developing ones, but it has many advantages like,
Reduction of usage of water
Larger output
And many others.
 So I think with this advantages it has, it would be adopted by so many countries with time, and be the future of farming, however it’s a myth that humans can urbanize the entire world, according to a study by Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek, 1679 the earth can support a total of 13.4billion people, roughly double our number today, other studies have published values in later years ranging to 20billion, which means that there will still be enough land for conventional farming methods.

[Bloodseekers]

It's sad to see what used to be an exporting country and now an importing country, agricultural land is getting narrower coupled with human resources who are less enthusiastic about farming, especially for young people, because they think farming is not a cool job. therefore, with the development of technology, in terms of production, the government should encourage agricultural technology that can increase production even though agricultural land is decreasing. or in my country where large areas can open up land for the development of agricultural areas

It's really unfortunate that something like this could happen to a country that used to be an exporter, now it's becoming an importer. Maybe there needs to be an effort from the government to develop young people in agriculture, if someone thinks farming is not a cool job then that's wrong, in my opinion now farming using sophisticated technology is very different from before.

[Xampeuu]

It's sad to see what used to be an exporting country and now an importing country, agricultural land is getting narrower coupled with human resources who are less enthusiastic about farming, especially for young people, because they think farming is not a cool job. therefore, with the development of technology, in terms of production, the government should encourage agricultural technology that can increase production even though agricultural land is decreasing. or in my country where large areas can open up land for the development of agricultural areas

It's really unfortunate that something like this could happen to a country that used to be an exporter, now it's becoming an importer. Maybe there needs to be an effort from the government to develop young people in agriculture, if someone thinks farming is not a cool job then that's wrong, in my opinion now farming using sophisticated technology is very different from before.

the main factor that must be addressed is a cleaner government so that people can think about the importance of human resources, therefore even though they are blessed with abundant natural resources, if they do not have good human resources, then it will be in vain. to make a better government is not easy because there are politicians who are sometimes more selfish or group concerned, so this can hinder the development of a country

[Mahanton]

It's sad to see what used to be an exporting country and now an importing country, agricultural land is getting narrower coupled with human resources who are less enthusiastic about farming, especially for young people, because they think farming is not a cool job. therefore, with the development of technology, in terms of production, the government should encourage agricultural technology that can increase production even though agricultural land is decreasing. or in my country where large areas can open up land for the development of agricultural areas

It's really unfortunate that something like this could happen to a country that used to be an exporter, now it's becoming an importer. Maybe there needs to be an effort from the government to develop young people in agriculture, if someone thinks farming is not a cool job then that's wrong, in my opinion now farming using sophisticated technology is very different from before.

the main factor that must be addressed is a cleaner government so that people can think about the importance of human resources, therefore even though they are blessed with abundant natural resources, if they do not have good human resources, then it will be in vain. to make a better government is not easy because there are politicians who are sometimes more selfish or group concerned, so this can hinder the development of a country

Totally situational and just like you have mentioned about different types of government on a certain place or country then it would neither be that mindful about on things on their vicinity or not or having that selfish act.
There are lots of factors which would really be able to affect out countries economic status or condition and this is why it is really that basing up on how things been handled and on what are the innovations that would be applied for the better good. Speaking about future of farming then we do know that innovations and progress in terms of ways or methods cant really be stopped or would really be able to develop and discover.
Doesnt matter on what would be the methods as long it would really be beneficial to humanity then progress isnt something that could be stopped nor really be that inevitable i should say.

[Sayeds56]

Land is becoming lesser and not very available for agriculture as before, There is a lot of Urbanization going on and many land space are being built on to carter for the increasing number of persons. There will be lesser organic foods available for consumption as the worlds population increase and farming space reduces. Because of this, there now has to be an improvement in farming methods and I personally consider vertical Farming to be the future of organic food farming.

In vertical farming, Plants are grown in stacked layers under controlled conditions like green house farming.

Vertical farming is indeed a promising concept and it can potentially address the challenge of land scarcity resulting from urbanization specially in developed countries. However, it is important to acknowledge that there is still substantial amount of land  available that can be utilized  for crops cultivation by investing in land preparation making investment on land preparation and arranging energy resources to support modern farming practices.

The developed countries should take initiative to make investment in underprivileged countries, not only to uplift the lives of the people but also address issue of food shortage.

[DeathAngel]

Vertical farming is a good thing. It maximises crop production in limited urban spaces, reduces the need for land and water resources, minimises pesticide use & provides local, fresh produce all year round. Vertical farming has the potential to address food security issues by increasing food production in highly populated areas and reduces transportation costs associated with long distance food distribution.