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or. is this what the future of agriculture looks like vegetables and lettuce as start on several floors artificially lead to. fully automated farming protection from drought frost in store. this isn't a futuristic question. in japan this is already the reality. for a large in the system we can produce food on the optimal conditions with high nutritional content and good taste a good lawyer wrote an article originally balance the big difference to working in a field how to go about achieving. working the fields in brandenburg these thick dust clouds are due to the drought. without massive artificial eric ation there would be no harvest are these fields facing an imminent collapse.

or do they because the conditions are currently i would have to recommend my children look for a different profession. devastating drought here heavy flooding elsewhere. food production is in danger and catastrophic famines wreak havoc throughout the world researchers are searching for solutions. a typical harvest in japan. the workers wear protective suits that are hygenic they prepare. the environment as clinical these lettuce heads are cultivated that's. and free of pesticides. in this room to temperature always remains the same. always because i find it pretty good that i

can always work indoors regardless of the weather in tranches and in the rice fields. vertical farming is the name of this method from japan as seen here at the company spread and cure to the roots thrive in a liquid new chancellor without topsoil but with the same natural ingredients such as sodium and potassium. lamps with a similar color temperature to sunlight are used. solar collectors and the building's green facade indicate that progress is that home here. the university of chiba in japan. and this futuristic looking greenhouse experiments with vertical vegetable cultivation are being conducted. professor to your key cause i invented this method in the 1970 s. back then he initially had problems finding the right light and had high electricity costs the breakthrough came with the technology you go show you google

originally i wanted to help the small farmers who own small land parcels and she's right vertical farming enables one to achieve 100 times more any will harvest on a single area than with conventional farming he must stop so it's worth investing in such vegetable factories these facilities can be set up anywhere it's an important step towards sustainable agriculture there are no losses during the harvest and we use less energy for transport productivity and profitability can be increased even further with the latest technology. because. this method is mainly used for vegetables and salads as far as staple foods go such as cereals or potatoes more research is still needed. to know. in japan after the at. aster there was a lot of interest in these new greenhouses because it is possible to produce all year round regardless of external influences or from all who push thanks to our

methods the farmers have a stable production without damage from insects or worms because. and of course the system is sustainable when you can run these vegetable factories in the middle of the city and produce local food as needed from the top of. the contrast agriculture and the fields. once again the farmers lack watch or a lot of water and the weather is much too hot temperatures of up to 40 degrees celsius can dry up the soil to 2 metres deep. large parts of germany are affected by trout in the summer. the result can be the total loss of the harvest was high financial losses. hence heneage can harden and brandenburg as one of the farmers who suffer he grows

potatoes and corn. his farm is located in an area with light dry soil without the help of expensive eric ation systems nothing would grow on his farm. the water already needs to be pumped from deep underground and climate experts predict that even more extreme dry periods are expected for. the liquid in bordeaux called that if you look at the ground here there is no moisture and i can survive by the front through the that's why there's not much on the hills if it's the one. there are 2 miserable potatoes you know are a few more which might have been ok if they had an awful lot of vavi might last year we are having a very dry year again it's only rained half the amount that we normally would have had at this time and. all soil is so dry from last year that even the little rain we've got the last few days not enough for the plants because i will be flying

since we are mia. but how can the farmers problems be solved how can we ensure that food supply in the future is safe. bunning in university in the netherlands is looking into these questions at the renowned agricultural university scientists are working on using new ideas and methods to finally defeat hunger and the 21st century they are working on the assumption that in just 30 years twice as much food will have to be produced as today but the conditions for this have become worse. in order not exacerbate the climate crisis the area available for food cultivation should not increase the new methods are therefore needed to produce food in the future. and funding and as head of the planned science department he understands how grave the situation is. so if we change nothing and we keep all consuming the way we are doing if we don't optimize the way we produce our

food then for the next 40 years we will need to produce as much food as we did over the last 8000 years and i think that gives a really good impression how big the challenge is to feed the world in 2050. you know with its huge greenhouses the netherlands is the 2nd largest food exporter in the world and they take care of their resources. vegetable growers here much less water to grow tomatoes than elsewhere thanks to new eric ation techniques. our research is focusing on. to produce more food but at the same time to do it with less inputs so we need to produce more nutritious food. more safe food and this challenge more with less and better is really the overarching feeling of our research programs. this is how

daily life knocks in the spanish region of our many. under this sea of plastic tarp and then lies europe's largest special garden. artificially irrigated grown for exports. millions of tons of tomatoes peppers cucumbers and other varieties are shipped here mostly to germany. but intensive cultivation has its price pesticides and fertilizers contribute to the fact that hardly anything grows here outside the greenhouses. and spanish french performers are running out of water the whole area is drying out. the situation in africa is even more extreme especially south of the sahara. there isn't an increase and whether catastrophes. it's almost impossible for the poor and

hungry to lift themselves out of their misery without external help says the secretary general of german agro action. zeidan yards wide since 2014 the number of hungry people has continued to rise and currently 821000000 people suffer but we can see quite clearly that about 30000000 people have been affected as a direct result of the climate change this claim of hundreds. lot personally and very acutely affected by this because the storms currently hitting these countries were previously completely are no good and this is just such a sign of the destructive force that a change in climate a country give us and our people in the countries where we are quite defenseless and at the mercy of the elements also give us and. catastrophes drought and floods destroy not only the living spaces of inhabitants but also valuable

agricultural land. other brandenberg from recurring harden can solve his trap problems with technical help supported by the e.u. he nevertheless was pessimistic about his future. with legal use of irrigation is the only way we can still grow things here your pride. grain cultivation is actually not feasible any more before and we are no longer competitive world wide open to review the potatoes that we irrigate are sold here in the region where we still have a market that we can sell to redeem recalled will be included. back in japan at the company's spread and kyoto headquarters for the new world of agriculture spread is currently the world's largest farm for vertical production. and employee of the company on her way to work. her clothes are more similar to what people wear in an operating theatre than on an outdoor farm. here hygiene regulations are very strict

. all precautions are used to prevent germs from the outside entering the production as the food should be clean and unspoiled. in this closed sterile environment the plants grow without the use of pesticides and fertilizers. a good $50000.00 heads of lettuce leaves the factory every day this hall is only used for packaging others are used for growing very special posts including mushrooms and exotic herbs. the selection is large none of the projects is washed as there are germs in the watcher that may cause the vegetables to spoil another advantage of this type of indoor farming is that the plants thrive on several floors above each other and each very little valuable floor space the cultivation in some of the holes is already fully automatic. shinji not found at the factory 15 years ago you could build the muscle of the knee fact that climate

change or the explosion of the world's population was not a big issue in so doing or was there a market for factory grown vegetables well you murdered more but now we make a good profit. i don't think that factories will replace conventional farming completely and good but i think that our way of farming will play a central role in 20 or 30 years ago. we want to share the technology with poor countries so that they can produce their own food or a little deal stop just i thanks to the short distances to supermarkets and restaurants no goods are spoiled train transport unlike in conventional supply chains. on the other hand conventional agriculture in japan is also in a deep crisis. farmers use pesticides as a necessary tool and rice cultivation price which is sacred to many japanese is heavily subsidized in japan the market is largely protected by high customs duties

price imports are considered an attack on cultural heritage. but the areas under cultivation are dwindling the average size of a japanese farm is just $1.00 hectares which makes it difficult for farmers to make ends meet that is why there are hardly any young people farming was the average age of a farmer being 66 years old cooperatives are formed in many places in order to be able to far more effectively but the increase in natural disasters is also causing them problems. in the world. to avoid being held hostage by these changes the farmer. was inventive or will grow up and this is my aquaponics system he proudly explains and his small greenhouse he is trying out a new form of agriculture aquaponics here fisher bread and large tanks

ikea easy money has 250 sturgeon's and his facility.