Environmental Impact Assessment: Will vertical farms upend conventional agriculture? Indoor farms — often called vertical farms, because they occupy small pieces of land but feature multi-level growing areas — bypass the unpredictability of nature. Curl leaf lettuce growing indoors at YesHealth’s vertical farm. What’s more, Taiwan has scores of disused industrial sites that could be repurposed into vertical farms. However, it tends to release toxins only when heated or exposed to sunlight; inside a vertical farm, this is unlikely to happen.

Source: Taipei Times June 08, 2021 15:56 UTC