Investors seed indoor farms as pandemic disrupts food supplies
7 Min Read (Reuters) - Investors used to brush off Amin Jadavji’s pitch to buy Elevate Farms’ vertical growing technology and produce stacks of leafy greens indoors with artificial light. “They would say, ‘This is great, but it sounds like a science experiment,’” said Jadavji, CEO of Toronto-based Elevate. Now, indoor farms are positioning themselves as one of the solutions to pandemic-induced disruptions to the harvesting, shipping, and sale of food. “It’s helped us change the narrative,” said Jadavji, whose company runs a vertical farm in Ontario, and is building others in...
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