Modular farms open doors to commercial-scale plant production

摘要

Set against a backdrop of snow-capped mountains, what looks like a Quonset hut sits amid blueberry fields in the Vancouver suburb of Pitt Meadows flanked by what appears to be a dozen shipping containers.But the arched structure is the command centre of a new kind of controlled-environment agriculture system, one that could make plant production more efficient and enhance local food security.