Do you think vertical farming is a good thing for 3rd world countries? Why or not?

Question

Hi Cowboy - Do you think with financial backing from major donators that 3rd world people might learn as fast as we learn about this subject? They need the food more than anyone.

Answer 1

Mow tried it in china but it didn't work.

food is a big problem through the underdeveloped country's as we all know.

i see the future in Hydroponic as it is not effected by weather.

farming as we know it today has a short term life.

I have been on the land and mainly with stock, but again weather plays a large part in survival.

The trouble with vertical farming is single crops.

Answer 2

Not just for 3rd world countries  -  for everyone that likes their food produced locally

Answer 3

Joan,  I know that this a serious question, so I have to assume that you don't really understand the state of agriculture in third world countries.   My dad worked in Africa for 15 years in agriculture.  First as as a tropical crop specialist in Sierra Leone and latter as a farm manager for a large farm in Nigeria.  These farmers have almost nothing to work with.  Almost all farming is by hand.  They can't get proper fertilizer or seeds.  Vertical farming is about as far from these farmers as farming on the moon.  Vertical farming is something that would work somewhere like in New York City for someone with good finical backing.  I'm not trying to put down your question.  It's a good question, but vertical farming is in the stage where you might say we must learn to walk before we learn to run.  Farmers in third world countries are trying to learn how to crawl, with someone's foot on their back.

As to your question, yes, they can and do learn as fast as anyone else. Mostly they just need a chance.  If anyone had the money to start up vertical farming, that money would do much more good and produce more food if it was used to buy tractors, seed, fertilizer, education, roads, etc.  These people live in mud huts with thatch roofs and you are talking about building a skyscraper to grow plants in for them.  They have enough land to grow the food on.

Answer 4

theoretically, it sounds good but you're talking about 3rd world countries.  they can't feed themselves muchless do something as expensive as vertical farming.  you have to walk before you can run.  

few problems with farming in 3rd world countries.  first of all, the governments are so corrupt, the money or food never makes it to the people that need it.  secondly, most (i didn't say all) 3rd world counties sit in unfavorable areas for crops to be grown.  either the soil poor or polluted, it's sand or  not a favorable climate for crops to be grown.  thirdly, you're asking people who have no knowledge of what you're expecting them to do.  that's like telling a high school student to do a ceo's job.  they might eventually learn it but it's not going to happen tomorrow.  

a lot of us take for granted what we have available to us. do you ever stop to think about how much hard work was put into the food you consume everyday?  i can tell you first hand, farming isn't easy and it's no guarantee. all it takes is one bad season to wipe out a farmer.