Initial Research Pathway with Benjamin

Kai Fong read a news article about indoor farming on CNA

The team did a general Google search, searched 4 websites.

The team used Google Scholar to search up on vertical farming in Singapore. About 4-5 journal articles

We used ChatGPT to get an overview on the company Sky Greens.

Read journal article and used the information to synthesize for our summary.

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