Challenges Is Urban Farming Is The Growing Pain To Overcome

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2. Challenges Is Urban Farming Is The Growing Pain To Overcome Urban populations are growing in leaps and bounds and similarly the popularity of Urban farming is also increasing among the city dwellers, chefs and policymakers, though there are several challenges that needs to overcome. The larger demands have added to the hurdles and therefore this original grassroots movement needs immediate solutions to address them. The scaling up is a huge issue as more than 80 percent of the world population will live in urban areas by 2050 as per studies. This fact and finding have whetted the cravings of several entrepreneurs to develop large scale urban farming in the looming mega-metropolis.

3. The Stress Test Though the increased demand in urban farming has opened the door to a large variety of opportunities it has also resulted in a stress test considering the industrial as well as the economic capacity. Therefore, scaling up by simply planting more acres is simply not a viable option in the urban settings. The space constraints need to be addressed by the urban farming companies that has always been there for centuries and ever growing up instead of growing out. Therefore, companies are now focused on stacking the growing operation indoors to grow more food with the same sized footprint. The Benefits Of It By stacking the growing operations vertically indoors it has substituted LED lighting, resolved mineral issues along with other attuned artificial conditions related to the soil and sun and most importantly for the horizontal space required for traditional farming. However, this specific method comes with its own costs and requires an enormous amount of energy consumption. It also requires loads of costly equipment but is highly effective in producing 775% more in less than one acre of growing space. This means that the process is highly cost effective in the long run and has less impact on the environment as well.

4. Soil Contamination Issue Soil issue is resolved due to urban farming especially for those who cannot afford the high price tag that comes along with running a vertical farm. For the urban farmers soil can be hauled by a truck into their site from somewhere else outside the city. However, this issue is further resolved by the urban composting operations by converting organic waste into biomass and fertility that is more readily available. The urban farmers do not have to face and deal with challenges such as soils quality and contamination that is usually associated with the farmers engaged with land native to the city. The Water Problem Water happens to be the most significant challenge as being constantly accessible to clean water supply for millions of people along with a growing number of farms is quite tough to keep up with. In order to resolve this issue by a considerable margin several urban farmers employ underground or drip irrigation system. This allows the growers to regulate ten amount of water supply with the measured amounts of water trickling to the plants directly at its roots. This save wastage of water as there is no need to spray a hose to water the air more than the plants.

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