CO2 Sustains Greenhouse Farming Revolution

CO2 levels are supercharging plant growth and delivering bountiful crop harvests at unprecedented rates.

Greenhouse farming employs tentlike structures with controlled environments to grow crops.

Greenhouses now cover more than 5,000 square miles of land worldwide, 40 times the agricultural area under cover four decades ago .

China has 60% of the world’s greenhouse farms.

In the meantime, greenhouse farming, fueled by this life-giving molecule, will be part of a promising future free of hunger. Vijay Jayaraj is a Science and Research Associate at the CO2 Coalition , Fairfax , Virginia . He holds an M.S. in environmental sciences from the University of East Anglia and a postgraduate degree in energy management from Robert Gordon University , both in the U.K. , and a bachelor’s in engineering from Anna University , India . Image: Department of Agriculture .