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Twitter @juangangel Tvagro visits Vegeponics, a model of indoor vertical farms that uses innovation and design to make young people see it as a viable career option. Beyond equipment and new technologies, it is a commitment to building a group of local talents for the farms of the future that will strengthen food security. And given the resource and space limitations that Singapore has, productivity is a term that is frequently repeated within the local agricultural scene that seeks to grow efficiently and sustainably. The vertical farm or vertical agriculture (in English, vertical farm or farmscraper) is a non-traditional approach to agriculture towards the cultivation of plants inside multi-story buildings or skyscrapers, often called farmscrapers, derived from the English term skyscraper. In these buildings, which would function as large greenhouses, technologies such as hydroponics or aeroponics would be used to grow the plants. Some designs include the practice of livestock (especially aquaculture on the lower floors, thus becoming aquaponic systems). The concept was developed in 1999 by biologist Dickson Despommier of Columbia University in New York, although there are antecedents such as a vision of physicist Cesare Marchetti who in 1979 devised a similar concept1 in article 1012, published in response to the Limits to Growth report. Media attention was slow to come until 2007, when Lisa Chamberlin published an article on the subject in New York Magazine2 and as a result, several American and European media covered the topic. Currently, several cities are studying the construction of a farmscraper in the United States, Canada, South Korea, China and the United Arab Emirates. Source https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granja_... Juan Gonzalo Angel Restrepo www.tvagro.tv