Economic Geography

Vertical farming and aeroponics are the future steps of revolutionizing agriculture.

1. Space Optimization: This method of vertical farming ensures space is effectively utilized by growing crops in vertical layers, more so in urban areas where land resources are few.

2. Resource Optimisation: Both methods use significantly less amount of water as compared to conventional farming techniques. Aeroponics happens to be an ideal method for those places having a dearth of water resource availability since it saves up to 95% of water.

Controlled environments allow for the supply of crops on a year-round basis and increase food security.

3. Reduced pesticide usage: Use of fewer quantities of pesticide, in general, makes the healthier fruits and vegetables with no traces of pesticides.

4. Less travel distance: Urban vertical farms would reduce the food traveling distance from farm to plate, thereby decreasing transportation costs, reducing carbon emissions, and resulting in a fresh produce delivery.

Vertical farming and aeroponics help to solve major issues of the twenty-first century—land and water shortage, urban food deserts, and climate change. As such, with a growing global population, it becomes fundamentally important to work on the sustainability and efficiency of farming practices.

Accordingly, these new ways of farming are important for future food security and ecological balance due to local food production and reduced environmental degradation.