VF company Oishii opens solar-powered facility to grow ’20x’ more

Added on 25 June 2024

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VF company Oishii opens solar-powered facility to grow ’20x’ more

A strawberry-picking robot. Image credit: Oishii

Vertical farming company Oishii has officially opened the doors on its 237,000-square-foot strawberry-farming facility first announced earlier this year year.

Dubbed the Amatelas Farm (for the Japanese Goddess of the Sun), the Phillipsburg, New Jersey-located facility runs on renewable energy and “represents a new, more efficient paradigm for indoor agriculture,” according to the company. The farm will now serve as the main production hub for Oishii’s Koyo strawberries, which are based on a berry specific to the Koyo region of Japan.