Open AccessDesign of a vegetable production model: Z-farming
Author(s) -
Adriana Isabel Ruiz López,
Marlene Aguilar,
Juan Sebastián Vélez,
Espino Pineda,
Gonzalo Ángeles Ordoñez
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1418/1/012013
Subject(s) - agriculture , production (economics) , food security , sustainable agriculture , food sovereignty , product (mathematics) , food processing , business , population , function (biology) , order (exchange) , agricultural productivity , environmental economics , geography , economics , political science , mathematics , sociology , geometry , demography , archaeology , finance , evolutionary biology , biology , law , macroeconomics
Currently, climate change is a limiting factor in agriculture, due to the changes in periods and intensity of rainfall, extreme temperatures which generate economic losses and shortages of food. In addition to this factor, population growth and migration to the cities establish the need to seek strategies to guarantee food security and sovereignty, through the so-called urban gardens. From this concept comes a new and visionary subtype of agriculture called Z-farming, which includes the production of food in vertical environments, without using soil and available in open spaces close to cities or completely closed. The “Semillero de Investigación en Tecnología Electrónica Aplicada, Centro de Biotecnología Industrial, Servicio Nacional de Aprendizaje, Palmira”, developed an automated system design for plant production, which aims to raise awareness about food production in small spaces, in order to provide a tool for food production. The design includes the improvement of product characteristics with emphasis on shape, function, and use, with a priority focus on the end user. The project aims to develop a prototype of an automated plant production system as a strategy for innovation and research in sustainable agriculture.