These smart farms are 100 times more productive than traditional agriculture

In the United States today, one farmer can feed around seventy families, so that employment in agriculture accounts for just 1.4 percent of the workforce.

sequencing technology has spread while declining exponentially in cost,‡ farming, animal husbandry, and other sectors have also been affected.

In this regard, media reports about “land-less” urban agriculture—hydroponic cultivation in high-rises—are particularly devoid of any real understanding of global food demand. Such high-input operations can produce leafy greens (lettuces, basil) and some vegetables (tomatoes, peppers) whose nutritional value is almost solely in their vitamin C cont