Land-Consuming Food Production:
as we know it

Up to today, the most common agricultural paradigm is still highly dependent on land. According to FAO, over 95% of world crop production comes from land. The plough supports every harvest with its nutration and fertileness.
However, at the same time, high dependency means the same threat will come to food production as to the arable land.
It is necessary that we must be visionary enough to cultivate the possibility of land-free agriculture to reduce the dependence.

The Global Arable Land Crisis

What's worse, due to natural hazards such as desertification, salinization, and soil erosion, a large amount of arable land loses its productivity every year around the world, and that strengthen the necessity mentioned above.
Although arable land is constantly decreasing, the rate of global population growth is accelerating, and the demand for food is constantly rising. Against this backdrop, the food crisis is spreading everywhere.
It is urgent to solve the global arable land crisis.

Which Crop to Target?

After detailed researching, we decided to choose starch as a target to design the land-free agriculture paradigm.
The reasons are as follows:

Showed on the right is a prechart describing how much each type of crops takes in all the crop production worldwide every year (Item: billion ton).
Data Source: STATISTICAL YEARBOOK 2022 ISSN 2225-7373 WORLD FOOD AND AGRICULTURE