World’s biggest VF produces year-round in Dubai

São Paulo – Furthering the sustainable food cultivation is one of the world’s current challenges, and the country that hosts the COP28 climate meeting starting on Thursday (30), the United Arab Emirates, has making efforts towards this goal. An example is Bustanica, the world’s largest vertical farm, UAE state news agency WAM reported.

Vertical farms grow produces on vertical layers indoors, an alternative in the face of the impact that climate change can cause on the traditional farming models. The Bustanica farm is a 31,000-square-meter three-floor facility that produces some 1,000 metric tons of food annually in separate rooms that accommodate plants in different stages.

“Bustanica is a controlled environment agricultural modalized facility. Modular means that we are separated room by room, which gives us the versatility and adaptability to chop and change products within a controlled environment with the precision farming element precision farming, meaning that we can provide plants and cultivars with exactly the right elements of what they require at exactly the right time,” says Robert Fellows, production director of Bustanica. Pictured above, Fellows shows the farm to WAM reporters.

Everything from temperature to humidity, lightning, water and nutrients is monitored with precision – which maximizes growth and output, nearly eliminating any risk of contamination. “The biggest benefit that we have here, especially within this region, is that we can produce 365 days a year, so we’re not governed by external factors such as heat, floods, droughts, pests,” says Fellows.

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