The future of horticultural farming is indoors.
It will make fruit and vegetable growing more sustainable and profitable with climate change now more frequently disrupting production, FoodHQ’s chief executive Dr Victoria Hatton said.
Speaking at HortNZ’s annual conference in Tauranga, Hatton said she has just completed 12 months of travel and saw indoor growing operations in Europe that have tripled their production of fruit and vegetables.
“The sooner we can get our vegetables into that indoor space, the better.”
It was the innovation that excited her most.
