Using Smart Farms to Respond to Climate Change
Farm8 CEO Dae Hyun Kang told Bloomberg in March that climate change is the reason the company started to integrate technology into its business.
“You need the right amount of everything from water to light, and the weather has to be perfect, which is increasingly hard to predict,” said Kang. “We started as a traditional farming company 16 years ago, but we’ve learned to incorporate technology because we needed to protect ourselves from the changing climate.”
The South Korean company currently produces 1.2 tons of vegetables used for salads on less than an acre of land in three locations, including the metro station, in the country. Farm8 is one of the top lettuce producers for local Subway, Burger King, and KFC restaurants.
