垂直農業是肥沃土壤降解的答案

如果您在巴林（Bahrain），請嘗試用米飯的雞肉（羊肉或魚）菜餚。

Foodies, take note: If you’re ever in Bahrain, try machboos, a chicken (mutton or fish) dish with rice. Ideally, go for a place that serves it with fresh, locally sourced rosemary (really brings out the flavor!), and while you’re at it, ponder on this: How do you grow rosemary on an archipelago of primarily arid isles where growing anything is a challenge? The answer is vertical farming, and if you’re wondering what that has to do with anything crypto, let me tell you: Web3 is what this miracle of an industry needs to live up to its true potential — and possibly make sure we can carry on as a species.

美食家，請注意：如果您曾經在巴林（Bahrain），請嘗試用米飯的雞肉（羊肉或魚）菜餚。理想情況下，去一個以新鮮的，本地採購的迷迭香（真的帶來了味道！）的地方，而當您使用它時，請思考一下：您如何在主要是乾旱群島的群島上種植迷迭香，而這是一個挑戰？答案是垂直農業，如果您想知道這與任何加密貨幣有什麼關係，讓我告​​訴您：Web3是一個行業的奇蹟，需要啟動其真正的潛力 - 並可能確保我們可以作為一個物種繼續前進。

One could argue that vertical farming is also the answer to challenges such as the degradation of fertile soil, which threatens to leave the planet with only tiny pockets of farmland by 2050. It could also help to alleviate world hunger, driven in no small part by the erosion of fertile soil, making food more accessible to millions of people. It’s a simple equation: With less and less soil to go around, we need something that helps us grow a lot in a tight space.

有人可能會說，垂直耕作也是諸如肥沃土壤退化之類的挑戰的答案，肥沃的土壤有可能到2050年才離開地球，只有很小的農田離開地球。它也可以幫助減輕世界飢餓，在不小的侵蝕中，肥沃的土壤侵蝕，使食物更容易被數百萬人接觸。這是一個簡單的方程式：越來越少的土壤可以幫助我們在狹窄的空間中經常成長的東西。

Equally simple is another equation. It’s not hard to see how less fertile soil will mean less food. Scarcity brings up the price, as Web3 knows. Food will get more expensive, year after year. And when food prices go up, other things start falling apart, too. The “carry on as a species” might have been a bit too dramatic, granted, but the link between food availability and social upheaval is clear.

同樣簡單是另一個方程式。不難看出肥沃的土壤將意味著減少食物。如Web3所知，稀缺性提高了價格。年復一年的食物會變得更加昂貴。當食品價格上漲時，其他事情也開始崩潰。 “作為一個物種進行”可能有點太戲劇性，被認為是太戲劇性的，但是糧食可用性與社會動蕩之間的聯繫很明顯。

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That being said, vertical farming is still trying to find its footing. Regular growth pains, one might argue, will pass with more maturity and technological evolution, but venture capitalists beg to differ. Vertical farms, projects that could save the life-critical agricultural industry, are struggling to raise funds. As such projects usually require a lot of upfront investment, they can only turn to major funds, not smaller players. In other words, traditional capital, with its regular focus on short-term gains and a lack of vision, is failing an industry that’s growing more vital every day.

話雖如此，垂直農業仍在試圖找到其基礎。人們可能會認為，常規的增長痛苦會以更高的成熟度和技術進化而過去，但風險資本家卻差異。垂直農場是可以節省生命力農業產業的項目，他們正在努力籌集資金。由於這些項目通常需要大量的前期投資，因此他們只能轉向主要資金，而不是較小的參與者。換句話說，傳統資本定期專注於短期收益和缺乏願景，這使一個行業每天都變得越來越重要。

Web3 has a solution.

Web3有一個解決方案。

Enter tokenization. Let’s quickly consider a success story from another industry: car-sharing. Vehicles are expensive, so a car-sharing service needs a lot of capital to expand its fleet. By tokenizing several Teslas in its fleet, a Viennese car-sharing service raised an entire 1.6 million euros with barely any marketing expenses. That’s obviously quite enough to bring quite a few brand-new vehicles into the service without any loan shark fins to look out for. Can this approach work for vertical farming, too?

輸入令牌化。讓我們快速考慮來自另一個行業的成功故事：共享汽車。車輛很昂貴，因此，共享汽車服務需要大量資本來擴大其機隊。通過將幾個特斯拉在其車隊中塑造出來，維也納汽車共享服務籌集了整個160萬歐元，幾乎沒有任何營銷費用。顯然，這足以將相當多的全新車輛帶入服務，而無需任何貸鯊鰭。這種方法也可以用於垂直農業嗎？

Yes, very much so. The idea is pretty much the same: You slice up the revenues generated by a vertical farm and allocate some of those toward tokenholders. As high-tech and often largely automated projects, vertical farms lend themselves nicely to tokenization, with their sensors and various other machinery hashing operational data onchain for observability and smart contracts managing the reward distribution.

是的，非常如此。這個想法幾乎是相同的：您將垂直農場產生的收入切成薄片，並將其中一些分配給令牌持有人。作為高科技且通常在很大程度上是自動化的項目，垂直農場非常適合執政化，其傳感器和其他各種機械散列操作數據Onchain Onchain on Chain，可觀察到和管理獎勵分佈的智能合約。

That enables the project to generate the upfront liquidity needed to deploy the costly hardware and cover other costs. The same goes for regular farms, which already have established clients and need funds to scale up and innovate. This way, architect projects don’t have to vie for the mercy of significant VCs. They can take their ideas to the global Web3 community, which would consider them and back the ones that seem worth a try. With this lifeline, vertical farms can reach the point where their efficiency makes it possible to compete with regular farms across the board, not in some specific cases.

這使該項目能夠產生部署昂貴的硬件並支付其他成本所需的前期流動性。常規農場已經建立了客戶，需要資金來擴大和創新。這樣，建築師項目就不必爭奪重要的風險投資。他們可以將自己的想法帶到全球Web3社區，這將考慮它們並支持似乎值得一試的人。借助這條生命線，垂直農場可以達到其效率使與普通農場全面競爭的效率，而不是在某些特定情況下。

Blockchain technology adds another layer of transparency to the process. When everything runs on smart contracts, you have clear visibility into the sales and revenues generated by the farm. This would give the project’s backers a clear overview of its performance and enable them to make more informed decisions. On top of that, onchain fruits and vegetables are a lot more traceable, enabling buyers to pinpoint how their greens were sourced, which is good for environmentally minded consumers and is also helpful for supply chain management.

區塊鏈技術為過程增加了另一層透明度。當一切都符合智能合約時，您將對農場產生的銷售和收入有清晰的可見性。這將使項目的支持者清楚地概述其性能，並使他們能夠做出更明智的決定。最重要的是，OnChain水果和蔬菜更具可追溯性，使買家可以指出他們的蔬菜是如何採購的，這對環保的消費者有益，也有助於供應鏈管理。

The movement bringing Web3 into real-world industries and businesses is rallying around decentralized physical infrastructure networks (DePINs), Web3’s hottest sector, which also has the potential to become an agricultural superpower. Imagine rooftop gardens in every city, producing fresh food for local communities. With DePINs, this dream is closer than ever. We’re not just talking about growing lettuce; we’re talking about rebuilding our food systems from the ground up for the long-term benefit of all of humanity.

該運動將Web3帶入現實世界的行業和企業正在圍繞分散的物理基礎設施網絡（DEPIN）（Web3最熱門的部門）集會，這也有可能成為農業超級大國。想像一下每個城市的屋頂花園，為當地社區生產新鮮食品。有了Depins，這個夢想比以往任何時候都更近。我們不僅在談論種植生菜；我們正在談論從根本上重建我們的食品系統，以期為所有人類帶來長期利益。

Opinion by: Yog Shrusti, co-founder and CEO of Farmsent.

意見作者：Farmsent的聯合創始人兼首席執行官Yog Shrusti。

This article is for general information purposes and is not intended to be and should not be taken as legal or investment advice. The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed here are the author

本文是出於一般信息目的，不打算被視為法律或投資建議。這裡表達的觀點，思想和觀點是作者