CEA is not only used to produce vegetables for immediate consumption but has applications in many sectors. Mushrooms and officinal plants are the best known, but CEA is spreading in floriculture, in the nursery of tall and fruit trees and shrubs, in the production of vines and in the wide world of non-food, such as the pharmaceutical industry.
Nutraceutical ingredients: a potential market for CEA (TBC title)
Gina Rosalinda De Nicola, researcher, Crea
Hydroponic fodder
Nick Del Verme, advisor, Masseria Cilentana
The Vertical Farm and the architect
Matteo Benvenuti, director and founder, Vertical Farm Italia
Multiple realm vertical farming
Mark Horler, UK Urban AgriTech (UKUAT) *
