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Re:Five Things Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About Agriculture by boomanaiden154 on Sunday January 01, 2023 @03:02PM (#34210228)
It depends upon what you're defining efficiency as. In terms of yield per acre, there are estimates that yield per acre can increase by a lot more [1]. I haven't seen anything more efficient energy or cost wise (outside of a couple types of plants, really just microgreens).

[1] https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2002655117

Re:Five Things Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About Agriculture by itsyaboi on Sunday January 01, 2023 @03:13PM (#34210356)
Land is cheap. Efficiency in this context is units of product per dollar spent.
Re:Five Things Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About Agriculture by musasabi on Sunday January 01, 2023 @04:21PM (#34211052)
Or, perhaps, carbon emitted. Either way vertical farms are a huge loser for anything outside of niche products.