Italy's National Technology,
Energy and Environment Agency ENEA will bring high-tech green to
the Milan Expo 2015 with the first Italian "vertical farm", the
agency announced on Thursday.
According to ENEA, the vertical greenhouse prototype will
demonstrate cultivation and production innovations by "soil and
pesticide resetting, optimum water utilization, green, efficient
energy from renewable sources, but also the transformation of
waste into resources".
ENEA is also bringing a replete high tech program to the
EXPO that includes innovative sensors to detect contamination,
water-grown, soil-free, no pollution plants, and technologies
for traceability of food, ecological packing and
bio-pharmaceuticals, as well a projects for arid land
cultivation in Africa.
"Our slogan for the Expo is to provide Italian companies
innovative technologies and advanced services to enhance the
competitiveness of increasingly sustainable agribusinesses, with
the optimization of resources water, soil and energy", ENEA
Commissioner Federico Testa said.
The Veritcal Farm will in the Expo's Future Food District.
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