“If food security and the damage the conventional food supply chain does to the environment weren’t a priority before COVID, they absolutely are now,” says Johnathan Ransom, CEO of Square Mile Farms.
Autonomous growing systems in the UK have attracted funding from the Government’s Transforming Food Production programme and tens of millions are being invested in a new training and demonstration facility but can CEA help drive social change?
Hydroponics company Phytoponics has just completed a £500,000 equity financing round. The company specialises in Deep Water Culture systems, where plant growing modules are kept oxygenated by built in aerators and serviced by a computerised nutrient control system. A major produce grower, Edward Baarda Limited, has become the first commercial grower in the UK to deploy Phytoponics technology at scale.
Phytoponics, developer of hydroponic deep-water culture technology for sustainable agriculture has secured £300,000 in new funding