Plans are set in place to begin construction on vertical structures that will be utilized for agricultural purposes. The free-standing structures will be a formation of multiple levels of farms that will be floating on the water, giving much needed agriculture to countries that lack the necessary farming space.

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Singapore, the most densely populated country in the world, has roughly 5.5 million people jam-packed into only 276 square miles of space which is less than a quarter of the space of the state of Rhode Island.

Being so heavily populated with such a minimal amount of space leaves little to no room for farming and agriculture and thus bringing their food imports to a whopping 90%.

Javier Ponce of Forward Thinking Architecture has designed what he calls 'Floating Responsive Agriculture' (FRA). Essentially, these FRA's are a large L-shaped structure that floats atop a body of water's surface.

These structures were constructed to allow the production of agriculture in areas that typically do not have the proper space, and or conditions. Thus, providing much-needed space to grow food for these heavily populated areas.

The FRA was drafted to help with the thought of Singapore specifically in mind.

In Singapore's case, the vertical farms are not designed to just be one standalone unit or two, but a vast series of towers that would span the whole countries borders to the water. This would allow the residents to have quick access to locally grown produce.

Though during conception creator Javier Ponce had Singapore in mind, this technology and concept can be utilized in many different applications for many different countries or areas all over the world.

These farming towers are designed to be exceptionally efficient and bring other benefits to them as well.

"In addition to added food security and reduced costs, the ability for these countries to produce food locally also minimizes the environmental impact associated with importing food," Ponce states.

Though these vertical farming structures are only in the conceptual stages as of now, Javier Ponce is currently working to unveil small-scale prototypes in the very near future.

Tagsfarming techniques, agriculture, food import, Vertical Farms, Floating on water, Densely Populated