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 While a scheme for a floating farm might seem a sustainable way to efficiently produce food, all that I can see is its potential for catastrophe….
Hoping to create a sustainable way to efficiently produce food in an urban setting, a Netherlands-based company is set to debut a floating farm in the port city of Rotterdam.
Aptly named the Floating Farm, the floating, fully functional dairy farm designed by Belado will be home to 40 cows. Estimates expect the cows will produce roughly 800 l of milk each day.
According to Peter van Wingerden, co-leader of the project, “We can potentially deliver 320,000 litres of milk a year, 7,000 eggs per day and a million crops per year.”
With a hurricane-resistant design, the floating farm is the first to be installed in an urban setting, yet those associated with the project suspect that such a scheme is only the beginning.
"Rotterdam is a perfect test location for this alternative farm, but the real demand is in Asia and Africa, continents that are still rapidly growing and have a demand for alternative food production,” Wingerden added.
As populations grow and life expectancies increase, food growth in urban settings will need to be entirely overhauled, according to experts, and Floating Farms is just one solution to the problem.
That said, surely I am not the only one burdened with visions of cows simultaneously swimming for shore after some less than graceful misstep or some floating farm failure plunges them into the surrounding waters while onlookers fruitlessly toss undersized life preservers at the struggling animals.
Luckily, I’m not responsible for things like figuring out if cows can swim or if they will be properly tethered to their floating stalls. Instead, I’ll just sit here and worry while Rotterdam reaps the benefits to be had from a floating farm.
Source: Floating Farm
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