7-11 investing 6 billion yen to build LED lighting vertical farm

Japan 7-11 are planning to build a large vertical farm to provide vegetables for their stores in Tokyo and Kanagawa. The farm uses LED grow lights to provide lighting for the vegetables, reducing the impact of weather on prices. Through large-scale procurement is expected to stable the plant operations and encourage further development.

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The 7-11 vertical farm invested about 6 billion JPY and is expected to be put into operation in January 2019. 7-11 are considering to build more plant factories in other partner factories in Japan.

At present, 7-11 mainly purchase vegetables from contracted farmers. Due to the traditional farms are more affected by weather, the prices of vegetable will rise sharply during the bad weather. Although the production cost of plant factories is higher than the regular purchase price in the early stage, the production of the vertical farm is not affected by the external environment. For the plant factory, the prices and quality of vegetable are more stable, the defect rate is lower, and on average, the production cost is expected to decrease.

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