Vertical Farming

Vertical planting (vertical farming), also known as upright planting/three-dimensional planting, is the use of three-dimensional space to increase the utilization area of a piece of land by multiples, greatly improving the utilization rate of the land; It's like a row house turning into an apartment. This can be indoor or outdoor (inside greenhouses or on building shells) planting, or breeding of various animals. The planting methods include soil cultivation, substrate cultivation, hydroponics, mist cultivation, and fish vegetable symbiosis. Indoor planting must use artificial light, while outdoor planting usually chooses to use artificial supplementary light because it is stacked high.

Planting patterns

Substrate cultivation: A soilless cultivation method that uses a solid substrate (medium) to fix plant roots and absorb nutrients and oxygen through the substrate. There are many types of substrates, and commonly used inorganic substrates include vermiculite, perlite, rock wool, sand, polyurethane, etc; Organic substrates include peat, rice husk charcoal, bark, etc. Therefore, substrate cultivation can be divided into rock wool cultivation, sand cultivation, etc. Using drip irrigation to supply nutrient solution. Its advantages are simpler equipment and lower production costs. But it requires a lot of substrate, and the continuous cropping of aged substrate is prone to carrying bacteria and transmitting diseases.

Hydroponics: Hydroponics is the domestication of common plants and flowers using modern biotechnology techniques and physical, chemical, and biological engineering methods. Convenient to carry, easy to take care of, affordable, clean, healthy flower and leaf growth, and able to achieve a picture of fish and flowers enjoying together.

Aeroponics : also known as Qi cultivation. The abbreviation of spray cultivation. One of the methods of soilless cultivation. It does not use solid substrate, but directly sprays nutrient solution spray the plant roots to supply the required nutrients and oxygen. Usually, containers made of foam plastic plates are punched on the plates and planted with plants. The stems and leaves are exposed above the plate holes, and the roots are suspended in the dark of the lower space. Spray nutrient solution onto the roots every 2-3 minutes for a few seconds. The nutrient solution should be recycled, but the solubility of fertilizer in the nutrient solution should be high, and the sprayed droplets should be extremely fine.

Now, fog cultivated plants are in the promotion stage. Especially in areas with poor vegetation conditions, it is more suitable for the promotion and application of fog cultivated plants.

Aquaponics: Aquaponics is a new type of compound farming system that combines two completely different farming techniques, aquaculture and hydroponics, through clever ecological design to achieve scientific synergistic symbiosis, thereby achieving ecological symbiosis effects of fish farming without changing water quality concerns, and normal growth of vegetables without fertilization. In traditional aquaculture, as fish excrement accumulates, the ammonia nitrogen in the water increases and the toxicity gradually increases. In the fish vegetable symbiotic system, the water from aquaculture is transported to the hydroponic cultivation system, where microorganisms and bacteria decompose the ammonia nitrogen in the water into nitrite and nitrate, which are then absorbed and utilized by plants as nutrients. Due to the fact that hydroponics and aquaculture techniques are the cornerstone of fish vegetable symbiosis, fish vegetable symbiosis can generate various types of systems by combining different modes of hydroponics and aquaculture techniques. The symbiosis of fish and vegetables achieves a harmonious ecological balance among animals, plants, and microorganisms, which is a sustainable and zero emission low-carbon production model for the future and the most effective way to solve the agricultural ecological crisis.

Advantages

1. High output

Vertical planting (vertical farming) can fully utilize the production potential of crops, and compared with ordinary planting methods, the yield can be increased several times or tens of times.

2. Can make full use of space

Breaking free from the constraints of land is of great significance for agricultural development in areas with limited arable land.

3. Cleaning and hygiene

It will not cause environmental pollution and effectively solve the problem of water source pollution caused by traditional cultivation of fertilizers and pesticides

4. Beneficial for achieving modern agriculture

As far as the current market products are concerned, Zip planting was the first to scale up and apply the modern agricultural technology of vertical planting (vertical farming).