Sustainable Fruit Production Operation

可持续水果生产运营

• 批准号: 10042965
• 金额: $ 6.36万
• 依托单位: FLEX FARMING LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Grant for R&D
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10042965
• 关键词: Sustainable; Fruit; Production; Operation

The United Kingdom aims to reach its carbon neutral target by 2050, and all sectors have started planning and implementing strategies to achieve this goal. The food production industry is responsible for approximately 26% of global Green House Gas (GHG) emissions, of which 27% result from crop production. To achieve the industry's net-zero emission target for agriculture by 2040, a transformation is required in both the farming and energy production sectors, and especially in their interaction and collaboration.However, global pandemics, natural disasters and human conflicts put food production at risk. A report published by the London School of Economics outlines how COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated how deeply the UK's food security is dependent on import, while more than 80% of farmers experienced profits fall in 2020\.The farming sector is focused on increasing the productivity of food production processes by integrating electrification, automation and digitisation into operations and using indoor farming. This will enable farmers to have more granular visibility and control over their operation in real-time and harvest crops year-round as it is not a weather or season dependent process. However, this requires more energy to support the operation effectively and hence, increases the operations energy cost.By 2025, it is anticipated that the agricultural technology sector will be worth more than £136 billion globally. This includes over £129 billion in the Autonomous Farm Equipment Market and over £7 billion in the Precision Farming Market.The Sustainable Fruit Production Operation (SFPO) project aims to promote indoor farming using Total Controlled Environment Agriculture (TCEA) and develop an energy system which integrates into food production operations to deliver zero-carbon products. The technology ensures the required power is supplied from renewable resources at an affordable price in order to reduce OpEx and provide products with competitive prices to become a mainstream supplier to the consumer market.Such an energy management system has the potential to be installed in sites around the world as a key part of an innovative transformation of food production, with positive consequences in feeding the world's population in a way that also addresses challenges associated with climate change.

联合王国的目标是到2050年实现碳中和目标，所有部门都已开始规划和实施实现这一目标的战略。食品生产行业约占全球绿色温室气体（GHG）排放量的26%，其中27%来自农作物生产。为了实现到2040年农业净零排放的目标，农业和能源生产部门都需要转型，尤其是在它们的互动和合作方面。然而，全球流行病、自然灾害和人类冲突使粮食生产面临风险。伦敦经济学院发布的一份报告概述了COVID-19疫情如何表明英国的粮食安全严重依赖进口，而超过80%的农民在2020年经历了利润下降。这将使农民能够对他们的实时操作进行更精细的可见性和控制，并全年收获作物，因为这不是一个依赖天气或季节的过程。然而，这需要更多的能源来有效地支持操作，因此增加了操作的能源成本。到2025年，预计全球农业技术部门的价值将超过1360亿英镑。可持续水果生产运营（SFPO）项目旨在推广使用全控环境农业（TCEA）的室内农业，并开发一种能源系统，将其整合到食品生产运营中，以提供零碳产品。该技术确保以实惠的价格从可再生资源中提供所需的电力，以降低运营成本并提供具有竞争力价格的产品，成为消费市场的主流供应商。这样的能源管理系统有可能安装在世界各地的工厂，作为食品生产创新转型的关键部分，这对养活世界人口产生了积极影响，同时也解决了与气候变化相关的挑战。