The Vertical Farming Response to the Agricultural Tropical Rainforest’s Destruction

Xi Zhao

2022

Abstract

With economic development, agricultural expansion is gradually affecting the disruption of the tropical rainforest ecosystem. This article summarizes that agricultural development poses varying degrees of threats to the inorganic environment, organic environment, and climate change of tropical rainforests. To improve efficiency, reduce pollution, and protect the tropical rainforest ecosystem destroyed by the development of agriculture, this article proposes introducing vertical agriculture as a new agricultural production technology into tropical rainforest areas. At the same time, combined with vertical agricultural technology in terms of deforestation and pollution, the practical feasibility of replacing traditional agriculture with new technology is discussed. The technology has advantages, including occupying less land area, being clean and organic, saving water and energy, and being smart enough to achieve full control of crop planting efficiency. It proposes possible solutions for mitigating the adverse effects to provide a direction/reference for the healthy development of tropical rainforests. However, there are concerns about high costs, limited crop types, and fewer employment opportunities. Therefore, scientific researchers must increase the application range of this technology further and reduce costs.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Zhao X. (2022). The Vertical Farming Response to the Agricultural Tropical Rainforest’s Destruction. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Bioinformatics - Volume 1: ICBEB, ISBN 978-989-758-595-1, pages 1188-1194. DOI: 10.5220/0011382300003443

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icbeb22,
author={Xi Zhao},
title={The Vertical Farming Response to the Agricultural Tropical Rainforest’s Destruction},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Bioinformatics - Volume 1: ICBEB,},
year={2022},
pages={1188-1194},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011382300003443},
isbn={978-989-758-595-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Bioinformatics - Volume 1: ICBEB,
TI - The Vertical Farming Response to the Agricultural Tropical Rainforest’s Destruction
SN - 978-989-758-595-1
AU - Zhao X.
PY - 2022
SP - 1188
EP - 1194
DO - 10.5220/0011382300003443