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Old shipping containers repurposed into a FARM making $15,000 a month
Innovative farmers are using shipping containers to grow fruit and veg Huge crates are kitted out with ultraviolet lights and an irrigation system One entrepreneur harvests 6,000 plants a week and makes $15,000 a month That is 80 times more produce reaped from same space on a normal farm Freight Farms provides the containers in Boston and insists that making a profit is easy In the middle of Boston, there isn't much room for growing crops.
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Biotechnology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For thousands of years, humankind has used biotechnology in agriculture, food production, and medicine. The term is largely believed to have been coined in 1919 by Hungarian engineer Károly Ereky. In the late 20th and early 21st century, biotechnology has expanded to include new and diverse sciences such as genomics, recombinant gene techniques, applied immunology, and development of pharmaceutical therapies and diagnostic tests.
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List of life sciences - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The life sciences comprise the fields of science that involve the scientific study of living organisms - such as microorganisms, plants, animals, and human beings - as well as related considerations like bioethics. While biology remains the centerpiece of the life sciences, technological advances in molecular biology and biotechnology have led to a burgeoning of specializations and interdisciplinary fields.
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High tech - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
By 1969, Robert Metz was using it in a financial column-Arthur H. Collins of Collins Radio "controls a score of high technology patents in variety of fields." Metz used the term frequently thereafter; a few months later he was using it with a hyphen, saying that a fund "holds computer peripheral...
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