The sweet future of vertical farming | Hiroki Koga
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🗓️ 25 September 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Can strawberries grown inside a building taste sweeter than those grown in a field? Farming entrepreneur Hiroki Koga explores how his team is combining solar-powered vertical farms with AI, robotics and indoor bee colonies to grow delicious strawberries year-round — and how this practice, if widely adopted, could deliver a harvest of benefits for the future of food.
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| 0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective. |
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| 0:04.0 | You're listening to Ted Talks Daily, |
| 0:10.0 | where we bring you new ideas to spark your curiosity every day. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm your host, Elise Hugh. |
| 0:17.0 | To solve the lack of land problem in agriculture, one of the solutions is to grow vertically with vertical farming, but the idea hasn't |
| 0:26.0 | quite taken off. |
| 0:27.3 | In his 2024 talk, entrepreneur Hiroki Koga shares why, thanks to AI-powered robots, vertical farming is no longer a futuristic idea. |
| 0:38.2 | And he shares the promise it is already showing after a break. |
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| 1:14.0 | So here's a strawberry, but not just any strawberry. |
| 1:20.0 | This one can be up to three times sweeter than a regular one, |
| 1:24.7 | just like the ones I grew up eating in Japan. |
| 1:28.4 | As a child, when I came home and I saw strawberries in the table, |
| 1:32.0 | it meant we were celebrating something special. |
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