垂直农业是肥沃土壤降解的答案

如果您在巴林（Bahrain），请尝试用米饭的鸡肉（羊肉或鱼）菜肴。

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，请注意：如果您曾经在巴林（Bahrain），请尝试用米饭的鸡肉（羊肉或鱼）菜肴。理想情况下，去一个以新鲜的，本地采购的迷迭香（真的带来了味道！）的地方，而当您使用它时，请思考一下：您如何在主要是干旱群岛的群岛上种植迷迭香，而这是一个挑战？答案是垂直农业，如果您想知道这与任何加密货币有什么关系，让我告​​诉您：Web3是一个行业的奇迹，需要启动其真正的潜力 - 并可能确保我们可以作为一个物种继续前进。

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.

有人可能会说，垂直耕作也是诸如肥沃土壤退化之类的挑战的答案，肥沃的土壤有可能到2050年才离开地球，只有很小的农田离开地球。它也可以帮助减轻世界饥饿，在不小的侵蚀中，肥沃的土壤侵蚀，使食物更容易被数百万人接触。这是一个简单的方程式：越来越少的土壤可以帮助我们在狭窄的空间中经常成长的东西。

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.

同样简单是另一个方程式。不难看出肥沃的土壤将意味着减少食物。如Web3所知，稀缺性提高了价格。年复一年的食物会变得更加昂贵。当食品价格上涨时，其他事情也开始崩溃。 “作为一个物种进行”可能有点太戏剧性，被认为是太戏剧性的，但是粮食可用性与社会动荡之间的联系很明显。

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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.

话虽如此，垂直农业仍在试图找到其基础。人们可能会认为，常规的增长痛苦会以更高的成熟度和技术进化而过去，但风险资本家却差异。垂直农场是可以节省生命力农业产业的项目，他们正在努力筹集资金。由于这些项目通常需要大量的前期投资，因此他们只能转向主要资金，而不是较小的参与者。换句话说，传统资本定期专注于短期收益和缺乏愿景，这使一个行业每天都变得越来越重要。

Web3 has a solution.

Web3有一个解决方案。

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?

输入令牌化。让我们快速考虑来自另一个行业的成功故事：共享汽车。车辆很昂贵，因此，共享汽车服务需要大量资本来扩大其机队。通过将几个特斯拉在其车队中塑造出来，维也纳汽车共享服务筹集了整个160万欧元，几乎没有任何营销费用。显然，这足以将相当多的全新车辆带入服务，而无需任何贷鲨鳍。这种方法也可以用于垂直农业吗？

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。这个想法几乎是相同的：您将垂直农场产生的收入切成薄片，并将其中一些分配给令牌持有人。作为高科技且通常在很大程度上是自动化的项目，垂直农场非常适合执政化，其传感器和其他各种机械散列操作数据Onchain Onchain on Chain，可观察到和管理奖励分布的智能合约。

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.

这使该项目能够产生部署昂贵的硬件并支付其他成本所需的前期流动性。常规农场已经建立了客户，需要资金来扩大和创新。这样，建筑师项目就不必争夺重要的风险投资。他们可以将自己的想法带到全球Web3社区，这将考虑它们并支持似乎值得一试的人。借助这条生命线，垂直农场可以达到其效率使与普通农场全面竞争的效率，而不是在某些特定情况下。

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.

区块链技术为过程增加了另一层透明度。当一切都符合智能合约时，您将对农场产生的销售和收入有清晰的可见性。这将使项目的支持者清楚地概述其性能，并使他们能够做出更明智的决定。最重要的是，OnChain水果和蔬菜更具可追溯性，使买家可以指出他们的蔬菜是如何采购的，这对环保的消费者有益，也有助于供应链管理。

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.

该运动将Web3带入现实世界的行业和企业正在围绕分散的物理基础设施网络（DEPIN）（Web3最热门的部门）集会，这也有可能成为农业超级大国。想象一下每个城市的屋顶花园，为当地社区生产新鲜食品。有了Depins，这个梦想比以往任何时候都更近。我们不仅在谈论种植生菜；我们正在谈论从根本上重建我们的食品系统，以期为所有人类带来长期利益。

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

意见作者：Farmsent的联合创始人兼首席执行官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

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