Figure 54: overhead LED lights for crop growth

- This farm would be designed along the same lines of the Aerofarms‘

Newark project farm, employing similar technologies to grow food. - Innovative aeroponics system that involves spraying a mist of nutrient solution on top if the cultivated crops in order to make them grow - The farm would also run on renewable energy such as solar energy and biogas. - The farm would not utilize large quantities of soil as a growth medium.

Instead, plants would take root in a medium called micro fleece – a textile membrane that is stretched across modular, stacked planter boxes. - The process also involves recycling water and reuse of irrigated runoff.

This not only helps saving water, it also allows recirculation of unabsorbed nutrients.

- No pesticides or chemical fertilizers

would be required to be used on the plants as the growing medium is in itself a nutrient

solution and it is grown in near sterile conditions.

- This vertical farm is capable of growing more produce per square meter area when compared to conventional farming. - The system would also comprise of monitoring equipment that constantly monitors the carbon dioxide and temperature through sensors and adjust it according to the requirements of ideal growth of crops. - There are also sensors to monitor the wavelength and colour of the light

Figure 54: overhead LED lights for crop growth

that the plant receives through overhead LED‘s and the duration and intensity of light according to specific requirements of photoperiod for each species.