• Vertical farming projected to reach more than $25 billion by 2030, with a CAGR of 23.3%
• MRFR report notes that “vertical farming systems and technologies offer a superior approach to farming methods”
• ACTX GrowPods are essentially vertical micro-farms that can be placed anywhere, allow cultivation of a wide variety of crops, 365 days a year

A recent Market Research Future (“MRFR”) report shows that vertical farming is projected to reach more than $25 billion by 2030, with a CAGR of 23.3% (https://cnw.fm/kKdVm). Those numbers bode well for Advanced Container Technologies (OTC: ACTX), a company in the business of selling GrowPods, self-contained, automated, indoor “micro-farms” that are building a reputation in the vertical farming space. 

“Vertical farming systems and technologies offer a superior approach to farming methods, allowing for the growing of large amounts of crops inside a confined land area while requiring little financial investment and having no negative impact on the environment,” reported MRFR’s comprehensive research report. “The main reason for this is because perpendicular stack-based farming lowers the need for additional land and allows for full land utilization for farming, with optimal land and energy use yielding significant returns. The vertical farming market has seen diversified growth in all segments and across different regions as a result of rising populations and rising per capita incomes, which has shifted people’s demands toward more organic, health, and environment-friendly foodstuffs, resulting in the development of the vertical farming market.”

The report also noted that consumers are more aware of what they are eating and are prioritizing health. These changes have “fueled the market for organic farming, which produces fruits and vegetables that are free of insecticides and pesticides and high in nutritional content,” the report continued. “The desire for organic and high-quality foods has transformed vertical farming firms’ production capabilities and created a foundation for ensuring high-quality and quantity-approved production to fulfill rising needs. In addition, people have begun to cultivate fruits and vegetables indoors, giving rise to the concept of indoor vertical farming.”

Advanced Container Technologies is keenly aware of the opportunities in vertical farming and appears uniquely suited for growth in the space. The company is the sole distributor of GrowPods, which are advanced, self-contained hydroponic containers manufactured by GP Solutions Inc.

“These innovative automated systems are essentially micro-farms that can be placed virtually anywhere and, with their controlled and specially filtered environment, allow cultivation of a wide variety of crops, 365 days a year,” states the company. “Grow Pods offer constant temperature, humidity and airflow control, as well as automated watering and lighting schedules for optimal growth and minimal labor requirements, regardless of crop.”

In addition to selling and distributing GrowPods, Advanced Container Technologies offers related equipment and supplies. Additionally, the company designs and sells patented, proprietary medical-grade plastic containers, known as the Medtainer(R), that store and grind pharmaceuticals, herbs, teas and other solids or liquids.

For more information, visit the company’s website at www.AdvancedContainerTechnologies.com.

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For decades, law enforcement has used standardized equipment called breathalyzers to determine the blood-alcohol content of drivers and police-impaired driving. These tests take mere seconds to administer and can give police a decent estimation of how impaired a driver is. As cannabis reform has swept across the country and more states have legalized recreational cannabis, law enforcement and cannabis legalization opponents have argued that legalizing cannabis will inevitably lead to higher levels of impaired driving and road incidents.

We still don’t have a standard test to quickly measure delta-9 THC blood levels. Furthermore, there is relatively little evidence that the level of THC in the breath or blood from recent marijuana use is even associated with impaired driving. With at least a dozen states now allowing recreational cannabis use among adults aged 21 and older, the need to understand the correlation between recent cannabis use and impaired driving as well as develop ways to effectively measure impairment has become even more urgent.

A recent study published in “Scientific Reports” did just that, peering into the cannabis plant to study how cannabinoids impact impairment. Two researchers from California ran a one-year clinical study with 74 users who reported using cannabis daily for approximately nine years. The participants had an average age of 25 years, and most of them reported that smoking or vaping were their most preferred methods of consuming cannabis.

One group of study participants had a baseline THC blood level that surpassed THC limits in five U.S. states, even when they were completely sober. This means that in these five states, the study participants were not legally allowed to get behind a wheel even if they had not used any cannabis. Previous studies from Michael DeGregorio, one of the researchers behind the recent study, and other researchers had found that marijuana use could result in short-term functional impairment.

The extent of this impairment depends on factors such as frequency of use and age. Building on previous research, this study found that 16 cannabis users had more than 5ng/ml of delta-9 THC in their blood even though they had abstained from cannabis and were not impaired. Breath and blood samples indicated high THC levels despite no recent cannabis use and no impairment.

Participants who had used cannabis for longer periods had higher baseline THC concentration levels, which in many cases exceeded state limits. However, their duration of impairment was decreased, meaning they were impaired for shorter periods of time even though their baseline THC levels remained elevated. The researchers concluded that THC levels in exhaled breath and blood were not reliable indicators of THC impairment.

As more science-backed data becomes available, policymakers are likely to evolve and enact measures that allow companies such as Advanced Container Technologies Inc. (OTC: ACTX) to serve indoor cannabis growers without any fear that reprisals will follow such commercial activity.

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• In 2021, a staggering 45 million people were at emergency levels of acute hunger
• Providing access to food, sustainable food systems are key to WFP’s vision of eradicating food insecurity and malnutrition
• GrowPods create an optimum controlled environment for growing a wide range of crops in a variety of environments and climates

With hunger on the rise again, companies and communities are working together to find realistic solutions. The world’s largest humanitarian organization, the World Food Programme (“WFP”), has identified access to food and sustainable food systems as two of eight key targets in its vision to eradicate food insecurity and malnutrition (https://cnw.fm/ZcoK6). Advanced Container Technologies (OTC: ACTX), the exclusive U.S. distributor of GrowPods, environmentally controlled micro-farms that allow cultivation of ultra-clean crops all year long, believes its products may be part of that solution.

“The world today is more complex and volatile than it was five years ago,” declares WFP in its 2022–2025 strategic plan. “Hunger has been on the rise since 2014. The situation deteriorated drastically in 2020, with up to 811 million people classified as chronically hungry. Across the countries where WFP operates, an estimated 283 million people needed urgent food assistance in 2021. A staggering 45 million were at emergency levels of acute hunger and more than half a million faced famine-like conditions.”

The organization’s “vision for 2030” calls for the world to eradicate food insecurity and malnutrition and for national and global actors to partner together to achieve several goals including providing access to food and sustainable food systems (https://cnw.fm/fgZWf). According to WFP, turning the tide against hunger includes, in part, “sustainable consumption and production to reduce food loss and waste.

ACTX’s GrowPods appear ideally aligned to these essential initiatives. Modular, stackable and mobile vertical growing environments, these game-changing micro-farms are designed to maximize yield and automation. Made from fully insulated, food-grade shipping containers, GrowPods have been modified to create an optimum controlled environment for growing a wide range of horticultural and agricultural products in a variety of environments and climates.

“In a world of plenty, where enough food is produced to feed everyone on the planet, hunger should be a thing of the past,” WFP declares. “However, conflict, climate change, disasters, inequality and — most recently — the COVID-19 pandemic mean one in nine people globally is still going to bed hungry and famine looms for millions.”

ACTX is pleased to join the efforts to make food sustainability both a priority and a reality by offering a way to produce multiple high-yield harvests every year with no pesticides and using fewer resources (https://cnw.fm/OnS39).

For more information, visit the company’s website at www.AdvancedContainerTechnologies.com.

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