Nowadays, many authorities are encouraging the use of vertical farming in rural areas to reduce the distance food travels. Although this trend has some benefits, I believe that the advantages are greater.
On the one hand, one of the major merits of vertical farming is that it produced closer to consumers. This is because modern technology allows people to grow vegetables and other crops in their building roof with numerous layout. As result, it can benefit them to reduce distances from consumers. Another benefit is that this method reduce transportation costs because local residents easily cultivate crops, plants and some vegetables . Therefore, they can transported their items in the near supershops and it has no charge to transport other places For example, when people export cherries or blue-berry fruit in the supermarket they can easily produce through small distance.
On the other hand, this trend has several drawbcks. First and foremost, vertical farming requires lot of money. The main reason is that when the people decide to grow vegetable and crops in their building space, it leads to high initial investment. Consequently, many people are not able to invest huge amount of money to begins vertical farming and this initiatives no longer. Another disadvantages is that vertical farming need high electricity consumption due to its several conditions. For instance, if residents want to grow different type of crops and fruits, advance light and higher equipment leads to biggest electricity bills.
In conclusion, although vertical farming improves distance of food production and reduce transportation system and cost. For these reasons, believe the disadvantages of this method is greater.