Taiwan is transforming unused metro stations into underground sustainable, organic vertical farms

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Smart farms such as the innovative metro farm are gaining increasing popularity in Taiwan.

Unimicron Technology, the company running the hydroponic farm cultivates lettuce at the Taipei’s Nanjing-Fushing metro station. On the 40 square meters growing plot high tech equipment provide the light, temperature and nutrients supply that is most beneficial plant growth. The current production rate reaches 36 kg of lettuce weakly.

Smart farms such as the innovative metro farm are gaining increasing popularity in Taiwan as more and more people worry about food quality and excessive use of chemicals in traditional agriculture. In the ‘weather safe’ environment high yields require less manual labour, a bottleneck in today’s farming that fails to attract the younger generation.

Watch the video at Euronews