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My thoughts:

If a crop is easy to grow, that means it’s able to handle: 1. Variable sunlight conditions; 2. Variable water conditions; 3. Handle bugs, viruses; and 4. Variable climate conditions.

Low yield crops are problematic because they cannot handle variability. Using an indoor facility is equally expensive if you program the conditions to be variable or to be relatively strict. Additionally, a low yield crop is typically more expensive than a high yield crop.

As such, you would rather program the indoor facility’s conditions to be relatively strict and grow a typically low yield crop, get significantly better yield and compete on price.



> Low yield crops are problematic because they cannot handle variability.

Is this generally the cause for their lower yields? I would assume they just aren’t genetically programmed to grow as much (useful stuff, at least).


Oh, yeah, I'm sure that is also a problem. I don't think vertical farming can really help enough with that problem.

Vertical farming can definitely help problems like: https://extension.umd.edu/hgic/topics/low-yields-undersized-...

And most specifically, for crops that are just plain picky: https://www.rliland.com/difficult-crops-grow/




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