Embrace the future of farm-tech.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Ashour, Mohammed
- Source
- Maclean's. Nov2022, Vol. 135 Issue 10, p16-17. 2p. 1 Cartoon or Caricature.
- Subject
- *VERTICAL farming
*REAL estate development
- Language
- ISSN
- 0024-9262
A financial safety net would allow agriculture workers to monitor their results without having to single-handedly shoulder the huge cost of a lacklustre harvest. The Ontario company Mycionics has invented a robotic harvesting system that picks mushrooms based on farmers' preferences, trims the stems and packages them for the market, reducing the need for seasonal labourers. OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS, I started farming crickets - four billion of them. [Extracted from the article]