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Most tomatoes are actually grown in greenhouses (a quick Google tells me 89% for Canada, for example). So the step to vertical farms would be easier than for a
by speleding 10y ago
Most tomatoes are actually grown in greenhouses (a quick Google tells me 89% for Canada, for example). So the step to vertical farms would be easier than for a crop that's grown outside.
- brudgers 10y agoIn climates such as experienced in Canada, greenhouse tomatoes are a sensible approach. In places like Florida or California, outdoor growth is more typical. For comparison, Florida ships [1] a similar but smaller number of tomatoes to that produced by all of Canada[2]. [1]: http://www.floridatomatoes.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Tomato_1011.pdf http://www.floridatomatoes.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/To... [2]: There's a wikipedia page of countries ranked by tomato production: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tomato_production https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tomato_pr...