Week 9 Writing Homework
- December 15, 2024
- 3:30 pm
- One Comment
Prompt: Should more cities adopt vertical farming to address urban food security and environmental challenges? Argue your position using examples from Singapore’s success in sustainable urban agriculture.
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Imagine a world that was filled with humongous piles of food and no hungry people. Would you want that? By using vertical farms, p people can make loads of food as the food is stacked together and is compact in the rows. Plus, vertical farming causes the food to be fresher as vertical farms make the food travel less and there are no insects or weather impalements. Vertical farming is also eco–friendly and vertical farming uses no pesticides and uses less water.
Firstly, vertical farming can make more food. According to recent studies, a vertical farming building can produce 240 times more than an average farm. It can also produce crops all year round as the machines control the weather and the humidity. While farms can produce products only for a few seasons as specific types of food have to be planted in specific seasons. Imagine an entire year of food that can be harvested every day and solve the problem of how to feed the growing population. Do you want that to happen to the world? If you do, then all cities should have vertical farms.
Furthermore, vertical farming produces fresh fruits. In Singapore, vegetables and fruit often last longer by ten days as vertical farming protects the products from all harm like weather, insects and travels less distances. In normal farms, they travel from rural areas right to the cities which take about one hour. But a vertical farm building can be right next to the city so it will take no longer than five minutes including the people and the traffic. Do you want that to happen to your city? Do you want to benefit? Then all cities should have vertical farms.
Lastly, vertical farming is also eco-friendly. Vertical farming uses 95 to 97% less water than traditional farming. Many people in the world don’t have water and imagine how much money the world will save just by embracing vertical farming. Vertical farming also doesn’t use pesticides. By using pesticides many useful insects will be killed as it will get on to their skin and kill them. Vertical farming is inside so the insects can’t get in, so you don’t have to use pesticides. Do you want the world to be a clean wonderful place? So, every city should embrace vertical farming.
In conclusion, I believe that every city should do vertical farming as people can make loads of food as the food is stacked together and is compact in the rows. Plus, vertical farming causes the food to be fresher as vertical farms make the food travel less and there are no insects or weather impalements. Vertical farming is also eco–friendly and vertical farming uses no pesticides and uses less water.