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Article: Time Magazine Names Valcent's Vertical Farming Technology as one of the Top 50 Best Innovations of 2009.
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- November 13, 2009
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VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, Nov 13, 2009 (Marketwire via COMTEX) -- Valcent Products (OTCBB:VCTZF) vertical farming technology was named one of the Top 50 "Best Innovations of 2009" from Time Magazine in the issue on the newsstands today.
"Real estate - the one thing we're not making any more of," reports Time Magazine. "That might be good news for landlords but not for the world's farmers, who have finite cropland to feed a growing global population. The answer: build up by farming vertically. Valcent is pioneering a hydroponic-farming system that grows plants in rotating rows, one on top of another. The rotation gives the plants the precise amount of light and ...