Engineering & success of an indoor farming installation

Is an indoor vertical farm right for you?

Your primary consideration, before anything else, needs to be whether an indoor vertical farm is the right choice for you. You must to know your crop, your market, and your labor and utility costs to determine whether vertical farming is profitable in your area. It would be advisable at this stage to use an objective modelling tool such as Agritecture Designer, where you can build and compare multiple financial simulations of controlled environment agriculture facilities. Urban Crop Solutions can use these simulations to assist further and carry out an early-stage business assessment with their own dedicated feasibility calculator built for their own systems prior to proceeding with a sale.

Designing your indoor vertical farm

Ultimately, there are two things that you want your indoor farm to do– produce fresh, healthy, high-quality food and plants, and to have the longevity to remain high-performing over the years. The success of both can be determined by the engineering of a system.

Whether your plants are grown for direct consumption or biotech and pharmaceutical applications, your plants need to be grown in perfectly hygienic and sterile conditions. While common sense might suggest that merely preventing external contamination by practicing proper hygiene protocol may be sufficient, other factors can also lead to contamination from within.

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