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Construction of world's first large-scale vegetable 'factory' underway
Japanese vertical farmer, Spread Co., has begun construction on what it called the world’s first large-scale vegetable factory. The facility will be fully automated from the seeding process to harvesting and be capable of producing 30,000 heads of lettuce per day. The company currently operates a facility in the city of Kameoka that uses artifical lighting and vertical farming techniques to produce four different types of lettuce...
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I believe there is already one in Japan: http://www.gereports.com/post/91250246340/lettuce-see-the-future-led-lighting-helps-farming
Yeah, I think one was a test-bed and this is the first "large scale" one, whatever large scale means.
This is super cool.
They've been playing a lot of Harvest Moon.
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