This inexpensive "Farm in a Box" is a shipping container packed with hoes, shovels, a drip irrigation system, and sundry other high- and low-tech items. You need labor, water, and 2 acres of land. You can grow any crops you like, on any 2-acre plot (that has water). You can feed up to 150 people per year. The system comes with training and high-tech optimizations for water, power, & harvest cooling.
The concept is extremely expensive and inefficient compared to modern food production. But the idea does contain an interesting improvement to the exorbitantly expensive, wasteful and inefficient "farm to table" local food production fad that is raising food prices and eroding our economy. It is also a good intermediate step for developing nations whose forming cannot quickly leapfrog to modern farming to feed their growing populations.
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