Vertical Farming and CEA are relatively new and innovative farming concepts —well, to be honest, not that new after it has taken the entire farming industry by storm. The benefits of vertical farming extend far beyond business. It's inspiring a new generation of students by showing them how food can be grown in hot and humid places and tracing its journey to their plates.
In this blog, we will see how it is helping the budding students or anybody who is studying modern agriculture. Let’s start.
1- Educational Importance in Students - Vertical farming is doing more than just growing fresh produce in challenging environments - it is growing young minds who have key interests in farming.
Read: Role of Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) in the Vertical Farming Industry
2 - Learning about Contemporary Farming - Students via vertical farming, hydroponics, CEA and allied sectors get to learn about new-age farming techniques and their verticals, including growing plants vertically in grow racks, LED lighting, coir for vertical farming, AI and robotics in agriculture and many other interesting branches.
3- Understanding the Value of Land - Students via vertical farming get to understand the value of even the smallest percentage of land and how it can be fully utilised in a way that it gives maximum yield. Vertical farming does the same thing. It takes into account the smallest of the spaces and stacks plants layer by layer so that the vertical space can be fully utilised.
4 - Getting to Know Climate Change Up, Close and Personal -S Climate change is a fairly interesting topic, but could be unwelcoming to students and at the same time unwelcoming when they learn about various climatic threats, rising CO2 levels, decrease in the water level, rising temperatures and so on.
Via vertical farming, it becomes a worthy topic to have their research on the upcoming challenges to grow food in regions which are hot and humid, and then how vertical farming and CEA technologies are doing wonders.
Today, vertical farming is not just another form of farming, but it is a symbol of hope—a tangible demonstration that human ingenuity can create a sustainable, resilient, and smarter way to live on our planet. It empowers them with the knowledge that they can be part of the solution, one harvest at a time.
