Design model of vertical farm structure supported by mechanical system

Abstract

The research aims to study vertical farming technique which is one of modern techniques, and so with its great potential in contributing to meet the need for various agricultural products by amounts of productivity exceeds the traditional agriculture, also it aims to increase strawberry productivity besides facilitating agricultural operations, and that through design dedicated system for cultivate in vertical layers providing them by a mechanical system for movement and rotation of these layers to be able to cultivate and harvest on all layers, besides provide ventilation and light needed for plants, also the layers are provided by an irrigation system for watering crops, and the necessary design calculations has been done besides using Solidworks software to assist in design and analysis of the system. The results show by using the principle of vertical farming the maximum cultivable area can be exploited a total of more than doubled compared to conventional agriculture, also the productivity of strawberry using vertical farm has increased at a rate of 126% compared with traditional agriculture of strawberry. In addition to facilitating agricultural operations for operators such as cultivation, irrigation and harvest besides facilitate censorship for products, by replacing large horizontal spaces in traditional farms by going towards cultivate vertically allowing limited agricultural area, besides the mechanical system which rotates the tiers from top height to the bottom.