[brandelune]

Actually no. In Japan, where I live, the country side is covered by development projects that destroy rice pads, mostly because there are tax incentives for that. In France, where I come from that's the same.

Perfectly good arable land is not being misused for development projects that don't mean anything when you know for ex. that Japanese population is in decline and creating individual houses far from the center of the city is going totally against what should be done to counter potential food crisis and the real environmental crisis. Etc.

[ogre_codes]

> In Japan, where I live, the country side is covered by development projects that destroy rice pads, mostly because there are tax incentives for that.

Sounds like an existing problem, not something which vertical farming is going to accelerate.