{"id":58117,"date":"2024-02-19T17:51:58","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T13:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/?p=58117"},"modified":"2024-02-19T17:51:58","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T13:51:58","slug":"emirates-flight-catering-fully-acquires-bustanica-the-worlds-largest-indoor-vertical-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/emirates-flight-catering-fully-acquires-bustanica-the-worlds-largest-indoor-vertical-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"Emirates Flight Catering Fully Acquires Bustanica, The World&#8217;s Largest Indoor Vertical Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emirates Flight Catering, one of the world\u2019s largest catering operations, has fully acquired Emirates Bustanica, formerly called Emirates Crop One, and its consumer brand Bustanica, the world&#8217;s largest\u00a0indoor vertical\u00a0farm.<\/p>\n<p>This strategic move establishes\u00a0Emirates Bustanica\u00a0as a fully UAE-owned company, helping sustain the country&#8217;s vision of enhancing food and water security and its agricultural capabilities.<i>\u00a0<\/i>The acquisition empowers Emirates Bustanica to leverage its local expertise and the latest tech know-how to meet the growing demands of the market.<\/p>\n<p>Located near Al Maktoum International Airport at Dubai World Central, Bustanica\u2019s 330,000sqft facility has the capacity to grow more than 1 million kilograms\u00a0of exceptional quality leafy greens a year,\u00a0equivalent to 3 tonnes daily, while using\u00a095% less water than conventional agriculture.<\/p>\n<p>Operating under the brand name Bustanica, the produce is available across all major retailers in the UAE such as Spinney&#8217;s, Waitrose, Carrefour, and Choithrams. Customers on Emirates and other airlines enjoy this farm-fresh produce in their salads and meals.<\/p>\n<p>Since its launch in July 2022, Bustanica<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>has become a part of UAE\u2019s dinner table conversations, thanks to its growing range of leafy greens, herbs and microgreens that can and should be eaten straight out of the box \u2013 even tap water can contaminate the produce. Bustanica\u2019s produce is grown without pesticides or herbicides, and is 100% clean, fresh, and nutrient-rich. Bustanica produces a variety of lettuce, spinach, parsley, and kale.<\/p>\n<p>Bustanica is driven by powerful technology \u2013 machine learning, artificial intelligence, and other patented\u00a0technologies \u2013 and a highly specialised in-house team that includes agronomy experts, engineers, horticulturists, and plant scientists.<\/p>\n<p>More recently,\u00a0Emirates Bustanica\u00a0was a preferred produce supplier for COP28, a recognition of its commitment to sustainability and environmental responsibility.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-58118\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/1920_bustanica-useshydroponicmenthodtogrowcleanleafygreens-681x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"681\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/1920_bustanica-useshydroponicmenthodtogrowcleanleafygreens-681x1024.jpg 681w, https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/1920_bustanica-useshydroponicmenthodtogrowcleanleafygreens-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/1920_bustanica-useshydroponicmenthodtogrowcleanleafygreens-768x1155.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/1920_bustanica-useshydroponicmenthodtogrowcleanleafygreens-732x1101.jpg 732w, https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/1920_bustanica-useshydroponicmenthodtogrowcleanleafygreens.jpg 798w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 681px) 100vw, 681px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emirates Flight Catering, one of the world\u2019s largest catering operations, has fully acquired Emirates Bustanica, formerly called Emirates Crop One, and its consumer brand Bustanica, the world&#8217;s largest\u00a0indoor vertical\u00a0farm. This strategic move establishes\u00a0Emirates Bustanica\u00a0as a fully UAE-owned company, helping sustain the country&#8217;s vision of enhancing food and water security and its agricultural capabilities.\u00a0The acquisition empowers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58120,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58117\/revisions\/58120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}