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From the Ted Talk by Hiroki Koga: The sweet future of vertical farming

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And using this aoacpprh, we were able to go from just a few berries on a plant to five times of that in just a matter of five years. If you try to accomplish something like this in a traditional farm where you can only experiment once a year, it could have taken us nearly 500 years to get to the same outcome. And using this hyper-speed eetrpnemxis, we were also able to aiposclcmh three major breakthroughs: bee pollination, AI and robots.

Let's srtat with bees. I know this is everyone's favorite topic. You need bees to grow most produce, strawberries, tomatoes, melons, perppes, you name it, because the bees will plinltoae the flowers that then become the product. But bees, they need the sun and the natural environment to ngaaitve. So in a vareitcl farm, they wouldn't even come out of the hive. Even if they did, they will "drunk fly" and can't find the flowers. Just like how dnruk humans are completely useless, so are drunk bees. They just can't get the job done. On top of that, you need somewhere between six to 15 visits by a bee to fully pollinate a strawberry flower. Anything less or more will result in missed pollination, meaning you won't have product. So for these reasons, an average Japanese farm a traditional farm is said to have a pollination seusccs rate of somewhere between 60 to 70 percent, meaning three to four flowers don't even become prdoucts.

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And using this ________, we were able to go from just a few berries on a plant to five times of that in just a matter of five years. If you try to accomplish something like this in a traditional farm where you can only experiment once a year, it could have taken us nearly 500 years to get to the same outcome. And using this hyper-speed ___________, we were also able to __________ three major breakthroughs: bee pollination, AI and robots.

Let's _____ with bees. I know this is everyone's favorite topic. You need bees to grow most produce, strawberries, tomatoes, melons, _______, you name it, because the bees will _________ the flowers that then become the product. But bees, they need the sun and the natural environment to ________. So in a ________ farm, they wouldn't even come out of the hive. Even if they did, they will "drunk fly" and can't find the flowers. Just like how _____ humans are completely useless, so are drunk bees. They just can't get the job done. On top of that, you need somewhere between six to 15 visits by a bee to fully pollinate a strawberry flower. Anything less or more will result in missed pollination, meaning you won't have product. So for these reasons, an average Japanese farm a traditional farm is said to have a pollination _______ rate of somewhere between 60 to 70 percent, meaning three to four flowers don't even become ________.

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  2. accomplish
  3. start
  4. drunk
  5. experiments
  6. approach
  7. pollinate
  8. navigate
  9. vertical
  10. success
  11. products

Original Text


And using this approach, we were able to go from just a few berries on a plant to five times of that in just a matter of five years. If you try to accomplish something like this in a traditional farm where you can only experiment once a year, it could have taken us nearly 500 years to get to the same outcome. And using this hyper-speed experiments, we were also able to accomplish three major breakthroughs: bee pollination, AI and robots.

Let's start with bees. I know this is everyone's favorite topic. You need bees to grow most produce, strawberries, tomatoes, melons, peppers, you name it, because the bees will pollinate the flowers that then become the product. But bees, they need the sun and the natural environment to navigate. So in a vertical farm, they wouldn't even come out of the hive. Even if they did, they will "drunk fly" and can't find the flowers. Just like how drunk humans are completely useless, so are drunk bees. They just can't get the job done. On top of that, you need somewhere between six to 15 visits by a bee to fully pollinate a strawberry flower. Anything less or more will result in missed pollination, meaning you won't have product. So for these reasons, an average Japanese farm a traditional farm is said to have a pollination success rate of somewhere between 60 to 70 percent, meaning three to four flowers don't even become products.

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