\n\tconventional farming. In the first stage, it will produce green leafy \nplants like lettuce, arugula, cress, spinach, thyme and basil, \ndailysabah.com reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\tThe factory, Farminova is run by Cantek Group that has operated in the \nfood storage, processing and refrigeration technologies business at the \nAntalya Organized Industrial Zone for many years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\tCompany Chairman Can Hakan Karaca said they have launched an innovative\n initiative, establishing the largest active plant factory in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\tTalking to DHA, Karaca said providing healthy, continuous and \nfixed-price food today is critical because the world’s population is \nrapidly growing and agricultural areas are gradually shrinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\tHe added that the factory produces plants in a closed area without soil\n and Sun and uses 95 percent less water. It produces plants without \nharming nature and living creatures, 24\/7 all-round the year needing any\n agrochemicals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\tKaraca said the factory uses artificial intelligence (AI) and uses 100 \npercent Turkish products. He noted that they will start producing green \nleafy plants like lettuce, arugula, cress, spinach, thyme and basil in \nthe first phase and strawberry and mushrooms in the second phase. This \nwill be followed by the production of vegetables like tomatoes, peppers \nand eggplants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
An Antalya-based firm has established Europe’s largest and Turkey’s first plant factory with an estimated investment of 2.5 million euros ($2.77 million), as part of its five-million-euro research and development (R&D) activities. conventional farming. In the first stage, it will produce green leafy plants like lettuce, arugula, cress, spinach, thyme and basil, dailysabah.com reported. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,4],"tags":[539,1028,1027,23],"yoast_head":"\n