{"id":124093,"date":"2021-06-22T03:44:35","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T10:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/modern-farming-coronavirus-outbreak-spurs-high-tech-greenhouse-boom-in-china"},"modified":"2021-06-22T03:44:35","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T10:44:35","slug":"modern-farming-coronavirus-outbreak-spurs-high-tech-greenhouse-boom-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/modern-farming-coronavirus-outbreak-spurs-high-tech-greenhouse-boom-in-china","title":{"rendered":"Modern farming: Coronavirus outbreak spurs high-tech greenhouse boom in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/modern-farming-coronavirus-outbreak-spurs-high-tech-greenhouse-boom-in-china2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>China is seeing a high-tech greenhouse boom as food supply disruptions sparked by coronavirus lockdowns accelerated the development of modern farming techniques.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>SHANGHAI, June 4 (Reuters) \u2014 At Chongming Island just outside Shanghai, China\u2019s most populous city, workers collect and pack tomatoes and cucumbers at a glass greenhouse operated by Dutch company FoodVentures, which harvested their first batch of produce at the site in May.<\/p>\n<p>The facility is one of dozens sprouting up on the outskirts of China\u2019s megacities that utilise high-end technology to manage irrigation, temperature and lighting systems to grow vegetables within easy reach of a large and affluent consumer base.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a trend towards more sustainable and professional supply,\u201d said FoodVentures director Dirk Aleven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China is seeing a high-tech greenhouse boom as food supply disruptions sparked by coronavirus lockdowns accelerated the development of modern farming techniques. SHANGHAI, June 4 (Reuters) \u2014 At Chongming Island just outside Shanghai, China\u2019s most populous city, workers collect and pack tomatoes and cucumbers at a glass greenhouse operated by Dutch company FoodVentures, which harvested [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}