Vertical Farming: A Futuristic Approach for Crop Production

Creation of concrete forests rather than the green forests by the people, climate change, expansion of urban areas, increasing the area of dryland, decreasing in the fresh water supply and population growth results in diminishing the per capita land availability frequently. FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) reveals that per capita available land is forecasted to decrease by 2050 to one third of the amount available in 1970. World population is estimated to be 9 billion by 2050 this leads to growing the demand of food products while the area under cultivation is static one. Now a days greater than 50% of the people are living in urban areas and 80% of the available land is used across the globe. Overuse of natural nonrenewable resources results in diminishing the environmental balance. Ecosystem is altered and soil degradation is going on due to overuse of chemical fertilizers and other chemical substances. All the above-mentioned problems have a bit solution named vertical farming. An innovative approach is vertical farming in which hydroponics (providing nutrient solutions to the crop root zones without soil system), aeroponics and cuttingedge greenhouse methods are used. These technologies are used with vertical farming as because the transportation of soil from ground to high building is very much hectic as well as expensive. Normally according to climatic condition of a particular area the crop is chosen for cultivation but in case of vertical farming it is not necessary as vertical farming associated with the controlled environmental condition and provide better quality of yield/ produce though out the year irrespective of season