SANANBIO Described Experimental Tea Cultivation in Vertical Farming
A December 2022 industry interview documented SANANBIO’s ongoing tea cultivation experiment and discussed the practical limits facing indoor farm projects in Europe.
According to VerticalFarmDaily in a report published on December 19, 2022, SANANBIO representatives described tea plants growing inside a company-controlled vertical farm as part of an ongoing experiment.
The reported purpose was to explore whether controlled cultivation might help maintain tea quality and reduce dependence on outdoor growing conditions. This was presented as exploratory work, not as a commercially validated production model. The article does not supply quantitative tea quality results or a comparison with conventional plantations.
The interview also addressed the economics of commercial indoor farming. It referred to projects being discussed in the United Kingdom and a farm phase under construction in the Czech Republic, while noting that energy costs had delayed a further phase there. Those descriptions reflect the stated 2022 position; they are not evidence that construction was later completed.
The report is relevant to prospective growers interested in specialist crops and to project investors assessing how research potential differs from deployment, operating cost and actual market demand.
Original source: https://www.verticalfarmdaily.com/article/9488388/china-tea-grown-in-a-vertical-farm/
Original report: VerticalFarmDaily · Source published: 2022-12-19
