{"id":1855,"date":"2011-04-13T10:00:13","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T18:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/?p=1855"},"modified":"2011-04-13T10:00:13","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T18:00:13","slug":"researchers-explore-indoor-farming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/researchers-explore-indoor-farming\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Explore Indoor Farming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/sunless-farming.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1856\" title=\"sunless farming\" src=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/sunless-farming-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/sunless-farming-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/sunless-farming.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a>Bioengineers in the Netherlands are investigating the possibilities of  \u201csunless\u201d farming as an answer to world hunger. With food prices  skyrocketing, the scientists are trying to eliminate some of the  variables associated with agriculture, such as droughts, climate, and  high energy costs. Their approach is to move farming indoors, where  growing conditions can be optimized.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers are growing fruits, vegetables and other plants under  LED lighting in a climate-controlled environment. By tinkering with the  lights, soil and nourishment they have had some dramatic results. For  example, in the lab they can raise plants to maturity three times faster  than in a traditional greenhouse. No pesticides are needed, and only a  tenth the amount of water is used compared to outdoor farming. By  layering the plants, a 1,000 sq. ft. building could provide 7 ounces of  fresh fruits and vegetables every day to every person in a city of  140,000 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bioengineers in the Netherlands are investigating the possibilities of \u201csunless\u201d farming as an answer to world hunger. With food prices skyrocketing, the scientists are trying to eliminate some of the variables associated with agriculture, such&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,20],"tags":[1017,1015,1016],"class_list":["post-1855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-news","category-health","tag-hunger-solution","tag-indoor-farming","tag-sunless"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1855"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1859,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855\/revisions\/1859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}