GrowPods from ACTX Allow Farmers to Rapidly Pivot into Crops in Short Supply

CORONA, Calif., Nov. 3, 2022

CORONA, Calif., Nov. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Advanced Container Technologies, Inc (Ticker: ACTX), announced that GrowPods – the company's unique Controlled Environment Farms, can help farmers quickly begin growing crops that may be in short supply, and without the use of expensive pesticides, herbicides, and harmful chemicals.

Today, there is "a massive strain on the global food supply," according to CNBC. "It's particularly severe because we are just coming out of a recovery from a two-and-a-half-year pandemic," said Johanna Mendelson-Forman, adjunct professor at the American University.

"We may see some shelves that are empty," said Scott Irwin, chair of agricultural marketing at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

According to the Des Moines Register, American farmers are seeing "increased costs across the board," from fertilizer and pesticides to equipment repairs and seasonal labor. Glyphosate — the active ingredient in in one of America's most widely used weed killers — is up 250% from a year earlier.

A study at Purdue University reported 30% of farmers are now struggling to get herbicides, 26% fertilizers, and 17% insecticides.

GrowPods are Controlled Environment Farms that can grow about an acre of food in a transportable, scalable, automated system that yields ultra-clean food, year-round, virtually anywhere.