2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
The ingenuity of the Japanese is proverbially known, as is their affinity for modern technology and innovation. When you combine these two features, the news that vegetables are grown in subway tunnels in Tokyo will not surprise anyone.
Cheap, fresh and without any nitrates in the vegetables grown in the subway, assure the management of the Tokyo subway.
Everyone who dares to eat fresh green salads, grown without natural sunlight, can be sure of this.
But how in the heart of the concrete jungle, away from direct sunlight, these vegetables grow, many will wonder.
As a high-tech nation, it is not difficult for the Japanese to meet these challenges.
Instead of relying on traditional agriculture and planting vegetables in the soil, they grow them with the help of hydroponics - in an aquatic environment, without soil.
Thanks to the methods of hydroponic gardening, the Tokyo metro can now boast of its first harvest of vegetables planted at the beginning of the year.
Lettuce, basil, chicory, arugula and other leafy vegetables have been growing in specially adapted underground tunnels for several months now.
In fact, the products of the underground gardens are so popular that the subway management supplies a number of local Japanese restaurants with fresh vegetables.
Vegetables produced in Tokyo's subway tunnels are also available at several local stores, where customers are also enjoying interest.
The innovative idea of how to use the unused subway tunnels was actually given by one of the subway employees.
At first she was met with skepticism, but after careful consideration by the management decided to try anyway.
The vegetable growing project in the tunnels started in early January 2015. The initiative will have a two-year trial period, after which its success will be evaluated.
If the project is successful, authorities say they plan to increase production and add to it the creation of salad dressings and even the offering of salads through vending machines.
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