東芝工廠種植生菜,沒有陽光也沒有土壤
Farming of the future: Toshiba's 'clean'factory farm where three million bags of lettuce are grown without sunlight ORsoil
未來的農業：東芝“清潔的”工廠化農場裏種植300萬袋生菜，沒有陽光也沒有土壤
Japanese technology giant Toshiba ha sunveiled a huge factory farm where it is growing various types of lettuceleaves without sunlight or soil for sale in its new healthcare business.
日本科技巨頭東芝公司公佈了一個巨型工廠化農場，裏面種着各種各樣的生菜葉，沒有陽光也沒有土壤。該公司新成立的醫療保健部門將銷售這些蔬菜。
Located in disused 21,000--squarefoot electronics factory in Yokosuka, Toshiba claims to have createda perfect 'germ free' environment where it will grow three million bags of lettuce a year.
這個農場原本是個廢棄的電子廠，坐落於橫須賀，該公司稱創造了一個“無菌的”環境，每年裏面可以種植300萬袋生菜。
Completely cut off from conditions outsidethe temperature and humidity controlled isolation tank, lettuce inspectors wearfull body suits while making notes on the quality and growth of the leaves on their iPads in order to prevent the air around theplants becoming contaminated.
這些蔬菜被栽種在可控制溫度和溼度的隔離水池裏，生菜監管人員穿上連體衣，用iPads記錄產品質量和生長情況，如此可避免植物周圍的空氣受到污染。
Each plant is blasted with artificial lighting to trick it into believing it is exposed to sunlight, while vitamins and nutrients are injected directly into its roots, meaning the lettuce does not need soil.
使用人工照明，從而欺騙植物令其以爲這是真正的日光，並直接給植物根部注射維他命和營養素，意味着這些生菜並不需要營養。The goal of Toshiba's new high-tech farm is to produce the world's highest quality lettuce.
東芝公司的這家新高科技農場的目標是生產出世界上質量最好的生菜。
The final product will be free of any formof bacteria, fungi or insect life before being placed into sealed bags, which should ensure the product has a longer shelf life than other lettuces.
最終出來的產品將不含任何形式的細菌，真菌或者昆蟲，然後被放入密封袋，如此其保質期會比一般的生菜要長。Toshiba aims to harvest three million bags of leaf lettuce, baby leaf greens, spinach, mizuna and herbs every year - witheach bag likely to cost consumers £1.
東芝的目標是每年收穫300萬袋的油麥菜，萵苣，菠菜，日本沙拉菜以及草本植物——每一袋的售價大約是1英鎊。
The lettuce factory is no marketing gimmick by Toshiba, however. Insteadit represents the company's latest attempt to diversify its technology-led business.
然而，這個生菜工廠並非東芝公司的炒作行爲。而是該公司爲多樣化經營而做出的探索。
There are already plans for the technology giant to build similar factories around the world over the coming years - andit will also be selling the high tech equipment that allows factories to produce similar products of exceptionally high quality.
該科技巨頭已經有計劃未來幾年在全球建造類似的工廠，而且也會銷售這方面的高科技設備，從而讓類似的工廠生產出高品質的農產品。
