Singapore Advance VErtical Farming Project

“SAVE Farming”（“新加坡先进垂直农业”）是总部位于伦敦的领先垂直农业技术和研究公司Vertical Future与一家正在新加坡建设“AgriHub”的新公司Vertical Farm Systems（“VFS”）之间的跨境合作。VFS是HSL的子公司，HSL拥有1000多名员工和28年的历史，建造大型项目，包括海水淡化厂（其中一个被授予世界最佳）。SAVE Farming的主题是开发和部署强化的水循环和空气冷却技术，以显著提高垂直农场的能源性能，特别是由于最近全球能源、水和消耗品成本的增加。在所有垂直农场中，能源使用、热量和水的消耗之间存在着一种自然的关系。许多人声称节能节水，但这很容易通过将产品定价提高到批发价格的10到30倍来操纵，这与食品可持续性发展的方向相反。该系统结合了温室冷却和可持续能源生产的方法，但以一种新颖的方式，完全自动化，大大减少了生产所需的能源和水的数量。其他垂直农场通常依赖于暖通空调，我们的组合方法是更优化的目标。该系统的核心重要性是养分的使用和吸收，因此英国团队将在新系统集成之前的早期系统开发阶段专注于这方面，之后将继续与新加坡团队进行平行试验。新的完全集成系统将在两个完全不同气候条件下的两个农场进行测试和集成。第一个是Vertical Future在伦敦的研发中心，第二个是在新加坡，位于VFS的“AgriHub”，双方已经承诺在那里建造一个1080平方米的商业化生产农场，部分是通过自己的资本贡献。这包括员工多年的运营和研发。该项目的作物范围将是“全尺寸”菠菜、白菜、巴鄂菜、罗勒、香菜和紫蓟，代表了新加坡流行的作物类型。非本地品种，如罗勒，目前从欧洲进口，而其他价格较低的品种则从越南等周边国家进口。从长远来看，这项合作将作为在新加坡（目标是30 by 30）和更广泛的东盟地区部署改进的综合系统的跳板。

"SAVE Farming ("Singapore Advanced Vertical Farming") is a cross-border collaboration between Vertical Future, a leading vertical farming technology and research company, headquartered in London, and Vertical Farm Systems ("VFS"), a new company that is building an "AgriHub" in Singapore. VFS is a subsidiary of HSL, which has over 1,000 staff and a 28-year-old history, building large-scale projects, including desalination plants (one of which was awarded the best in the world).The main theme of SAVE Farming is the development and deployment of enhanced water recycling and air-cooling technologies to dramatically improve the energy performance of vertical farms, especially due to recent increases in energy, water, and consumable costs, globally. There is a natural relationship between energy use, heat, and water consumption in all vertical farms. Many claim to be energy and water efficient but this can be easily manipulated by increasing product pricing by 10x-30x higher than wholesale pricing, which is the opposite direction of travel for food sustainability.The system combines approaches to cooling in glasshouses and sustainable energy generation, but in a novel way, fully automated, dramatically reducing the amount of energy and water required for production. Other vertical farms are typically reliant on HVAC and our combinatorial approach is targeted as being more optimal.Of central importance to the system is nutrient use and uptake, so the UK team will focus on this aspect during the early system development phase prior to the integration of the new system, after which point parallel trials will continue with the Singapore team.The new fully integrated system will be tested and integrated in two farms in two completely different climates. The first is Vertical Future's R&D centre in London and the second is in Singapore, located at VFS's "AgriHub", where the two parties have already committed to building a 1,080m2 commercially producing farm, partly through their own capital contributions. This includes staff for years of operation and R&D.The crops in scope for the Project will be 'full sized' Spinach, Pak Choi, Bayum, Basil, Coriander, and Shiso, representing crop types popular in Singapore. The non-indigenous varieties, such as Basil, are currently imported from Europe and the others, which are lower priced, are imported from surrounding countries such as Vietnam.Long-term, the collaboration will be used as a launch pad for deploying the improved integrated systems across Singapore (targeting the 30 by 30 goal) and across the wider ASEAN region.