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This chapter studies the leading practical experience of managing a vertical farm based on the Consortium of sustainable development and technological leadership (https://iscvolga.ru/пpoeкты). The vertical farm has been created and functions for scientific and methodological support for the provision of Russia’s food security. The most important tasks of the considered vertical farm are as follows: selection of the most perspective (for growing) plants (and types of plants), development and implementation of technologies for the quick-growing of plants, determination of optimal conditions for growing of plants at vertical farms that allow reaching increased crop yield and set and improved nutrition qualities. For this, the technologies of AI and deep learning are used. This chapter presents the results of the experience on growing plants of the same type in soil and based on hydroponics in 2021. An analysis of these results is conducted, and the most perspective method of growing plants at a vertical farm is determined. The results of the development and implementation of digital sensors for automatized phytomonitoring at a vertical farm of the Consortium are presented. Phytomonitoring allows controlling the conditions of growing plants at a vertical farm (humidity, lighting, temperature, etc.) and the results of growing plants (speed of growth, flowering and crop yield of plants).
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Popkova, E.G. (2022). Vertical Farms as a Promising Direction for the Development of Sustainable Agriculture. In: Popkova, E.G., Sergi, B.S. (eds) Sustainable Agriculture. Environmental Footprints and Eco-design of Products and Processes. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1125-5_31
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