Why aren't expensive produce grown in greenhouses?
I took the day yesterday reading about verticle aeroponic farming and how great it all is at producing quality food quickly. I've also noticed how insanely expensive plants such as vanilla beans or morel mushrooms are. Why hasn't there been large-scale farming of these plants in green houses?
I know regular produce such as lettuce or tomatoes aren't profitable yet, but surely such items as certain spices could easily be grown in greenhouses. Wouldn't their market increased cost push the entire venture to be profitable?
Posted Nov 12, 2021, 2:58 PM UTC
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Don’t know enough about the topic to answer this question fully but vanilla is notoriously hard to cultivate. It is very sensitive to its environment and has to be pollinated by hand when cultivated. That might make it a lot harder to grow than certain other plants.