Food Farms-Vocab Quiz

Food Farms-Vocab Quiz

Imagine walking through a city and staring up thirty stories in the sky and seeing lush green farms at the tops of buildings. Dr. Dickson Despommier has a new idea that could make this fantasy a reality; he calls it a vertical farm. His idea is to create thirty story towers in Manhattan with farms on the roofs of them that can provide produce to fifty thousand people in the city. Some believe that this idea is not very realistic; the determinant being that in the city businesses might pay more for the high rise space than farmers. His idea is estimated to cost hundreds of millions of dollars to make the thirty story farm.
Even though the costs of transportation of food are going up I believe that it would be almost impossible for vertical farms to make a profit even if their crops remain fertile. There planning on spending a hundred million dollars on constructing this farm but how are they planning on making all that back when all the farm space they have to cultivate fits on the roof of a New York City skyscraper. They simply can not compete with the major deity of the farming industry who has acres upon acres of farm land. Sometimes the primitive idea works best.
I believe that these vertical farms are very cool and flashy, and that people like to believe that crazy ideas like this can be successful spite the financial reality of it. Crazy ideas like this stay ideas for one main reason, money. Investors don’t like the idea of domesticating food on the roofs of buildings because it’s a dangerous new concept that doesn’t seem like it would make any profit, to them it seems silly. Before Dr. Dickson Despommier went out pitching his dream I think it would have been wise of him to make a visit to an economic advisor to see how he could codify his ideas in a way that it would make it look like what he has planned is profitable in some kind of way. In the end for this whole operation to work, its not going to be what Dr. Despommier believes is successful but what the corporate investors that are sedentary in some boardroom believe.