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Japanese firm prepares to start world’s largest vertical farm
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Robots grow lettuces in clean-room conditions with LED light
These heads of lettuce in Japan will soon be planted, watered and harvested by robots
High-rise indoor farms for vegetables are spreading across the world.
In a suburb of Kyoto in Japan, surrounded by technology companies and startups, Spread Co. is preparing to open the world’s largest automated leaf-vegetable factory. It’s the company’s second vertical farm and could mark a turning point for vertical farming -- bringing the cost low enough to compete with traditional farms on a large scale.
