{"id":13690,"date":"2024-02-19T14:16:41","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T20:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=13690"},"modified":"2024-02-19T14:16:41","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T20:16:41","slug":"emirates-flight-catering-acquires-bustanica-indoor-vertical-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=13690","title":{"rendered":"Emirates Flight Catering acquires Bustanica indoor vertical farm"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dubai, UAE, 19 February 2024<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 Emirates Flight Catering, one of the world\u2019s largest catering operations, has fully acquired Emirates Bustanica, formerly called Emirates Crop One, and its consumer brand Bustanica, the world’s largest\u00a0indoor vertical\u00a0farm.<\/p>\n

This strategic move establishes\u00a0Emirates Bustanica\u00a0as a fully UAE-owned company, helping sustain the country’s vision of enhancing food and water security and its agricultural capabilities.\u00a0<\/i>The acquisition empowers Emirates Bustanica to leverage its local expertise and the latest tech know-how to meet the growing demands of the market.<\/p>\n

Located near Al Maktoum International Airport at Dubai World Central, Bustanica\u2019s 330,000sqft facility has the capacity to grow more than 1 million kilograms\u00a0of exceptional quality leafy greens a year,\u00a0equivalent to 3 tonnes daily, while using\u00a095% less water than conventional agriculture.<\/p>\n

Operating under the brand name Bustanica, the produce is available across all major retailers in the UAE such as Spinney’s, Waitrose, Carrefour, and Choithrams. Customers on Emirates and other airlines enjoy this farm-fresh produce in their salads and meals.<\/p>\n

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Dubai, UAE, 19 February 2024\u00a0\u2014 Emirates Flight Catering, one of the world\u2019s largest catering operations, has fully acquired Emirates Bustanica, formerly called Emirates Crop One, and its consumer brand Bustanica, the world’s largest\u00a0indoor vertical\u00a0farm. This strategic move establishes\u00a0Emirates Bustanica\u00a0as a fully UAE-owned company, helping sustain the country’s vision of enhancing food and water security and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1736,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4510,8637,10174,797,3965,7890,89,5637,4552,13618,8222,10339,5992,5670,5878,2203,5500,4957,10194,5676,8651,10169,6711,10195,10171,868,10182,1103],"tags":[7924,4460,167,5292,1660,118,92,2116,2861,160,1214,988,16440,1643,1327,16448,9143,4202,16449,4512,655,4858,5760,4921,14065,3796,4681,600,2837,595,445,2964,2665,8458,3165,660,4160,16441,6373,16445,5798,16442,1681,199,4561,1843,16444,5257,16443,1567,6844,5488,412,618,2899,1557,6582,13802,16450,2998,16446,101,2820,13491,3389,1691,1658,1916,2862,444,3115,949,16447,7830,2755],"class_list":["post-13690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aerospace-news","category-air-cargo-news","category-airline","category-airline-news","category-airport-news","category-asia-news","category-aviation-news","category-business-news","category-cargo-news","category-communications-news","category-consumer-news","category-e-commerce","category-economic-news","category-economy-news","category-environmental-news","category-finance-news","category-frequent-flyer-news","category-global-politics","category-green","category-international-news","category-joint-venture-news","category-news","category-shipping-news","category-transport","category-transportation","category-transportation-news","category-travel","category-travel-news","tag-7924","tag-acquires","tag-aerospace","tag-agricultural","tag-agriculture","tag-airlines","tag-airport","tag-al","tag-arab","tag-aviation","tag-brand","tag-business","tag-bustanica","tag-capability","tag-capacity","tag-carrefour","tag-catering","tag-central","tag-choithrams","tag-communications","tag-company","tag-consumer","tag-conventional","tag-country","tag-crop","tag-customers","tag-develop","tag-dubai","tag-economic","tag-economy","tag-emirates","tag-enhanced","tag-facility","tag-farm","tag-february","tag-flight","tag-food","tag-formerly","tag-fully","tag-greens","tag-grow","tag-indoor","tag-industry","tag-international","tag-large","tag-largest","tag-leafy","tag-major","tag-maktoum","tag-market","tag-meals","tag-move","tag-news","tag-one","tag-operating","tag-operations","tag-owned","tag-retailers","tag-salads","tag-security","tag-spinneys","tag-stock","tag-strategic","tag-sustain","tag-tech","tag-transport","tag-transportation","tag-travel","tag-uae","tag-united","tag-vertical","tag-vision","tag-waitrose","tag-water","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13692,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13690\/revisions\/13692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}