Development and evaluation of a vertical farming structure

Abstract

The study entitled “Development and evaluation of a vertical farming structure” was taken up to fabricate a vertical farming structure and to compare the crops under fabricated vertical farming structure and existing vertical farming structure. For comparing the performance of plants under newly fabricated vertical farming structure and existing vertical farming structure climatic parameters as well as biometric observations were made. The analysis of these data suggested that adoption of newly fabricated VFS is advantageous than the existing one. The plant height, number of leaves, plant girth and yield varied between the two structures. The analysis of various data showed that the plants at the right side of the fabricated VFS had higher growth and yield than any other sides of fabricated VFS and existing VFS. The study suggested that newly fabricated VFS can be recommended more precisely as a substitute to the conventional farming practice on limited land area.