Food Technology Magazine | Innovation
Growing Pains for Indoor Agriculture
As once promising players exit the controlled environment agriculture market, others tap into innovative technologies and work to avoid the missteps of their indoor farming predecessors.
Modern LED lighting has been a major boon to indoor growing efficiencies. Photo courtesy of RED Horticulture SAS
If Jonathan Webb, founder of failed indoor growing operation AppHarvest, is the sad face of controlled environment agriculture (CEA), Eddy Badrina, CEO of Eden Green Technology, may be a hopeful new poster child of an industry that’s still trying to find its way.
AppHarvest was supposed to revolutionize CEA after raising $800 million and opening a sprawling greenhouse in Morehead, Ky., in 2020. But three years later, ignominiously, AppHarvest declared bankruptcy.
Badrina’s approach w…
