Near Protocol | NEARCON 2022 | Raiz Vertical Farms Interview

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   guys it's Chad here from uh near Foundation I'm with Emiliano from Rice he is doing some vertical farming if you haven't seen it basically doing plants some really cool stuff with plants and ownership of plants so uh Emiliano could you please explain to the people out here who you are and like your title of course thank you thank you Chad so Emiliano co-founder and CEO of rice vertical farm so what we're building is uh the centralized

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   network of vertical Farms to empower a more sustainable way to grow food and to feed the people in a more sustainable manner powered by blockchain so it's a refi project that allows people to have a wider ownership and traceability of what they are consuming yeah how can people get into the ownership can they get like an nft and then they get like partial ownership into it um how can they go about yeah so at the moment they can't get nfts through our main base store but we're developing a fungible token like to allow people to

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   have two things ownership but also yields coming from the tokens that they are holding right so in the future we aim to have uh the centralized food system where people can invest yield profit sharing but also have a very tangible impact of what the tokens they're holding in terms of CO2 water and Miles okay so when they buy this nft they'll get like a yield back but uh could you explain further of what it means to like buy into like rice or to

4. 1:44

   like get an nft or something yes I mean let's focus on the on the token that's coming up it's planned for next year maybe in a year or so so we're building uh we're building this protocol that allows token holders to One Finance the deployment of new Farms right so let's say you are interested in of course making a yield but also having an impact right so you can Finance the deployment of new Farms to these tokens by taking them you get access to a

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   revenue flow from the from the profits generated by the Farms such as that one that is being launched we're having also a side event today beautiful dude thank you thank you so we aim to have hundreds or thousands of farms distributed so as a token holder you will not only get profits from one Farm but from the whole Farm Network so every ecosystem partner like being an investor an operator of a farm we're incentivized to grow the farm

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   Network because the token price will appreciate also potentially the profits that you accrue from that while making a solid impact on the environment yeah great and you guys are based here in Lisbon Portugal right yeah how how's the operations and everything uh going here are you doing stuff at like the arosh studios um like what what's been going down here here in Lisbon yeah so we launched our farm at darosa Studios uh it's too long

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   two months old so pretty fresh Pretty fresh no pun intended uh I had fresh crops going out there plenty of events um we're increasingly getting requests like from corporate Partners to attend like to launch their own farm so it's like pretty busy days um yeah just lots of fun looking forward to expanding uh here in Portugal but also in other parts of Europe the US and hopefully you'll be seeing more and more farms in the following years man so exciting dude like I as soon as I heard about your project I wanted to get into

8. 3:45

   rice Farms like immediately I I would love to have this in my backyard of some sort like is there what what we'll be looking at maybe for like a timeline of say if someone wants to do this like at home or in their backyard or for their Community what is kind of like a road map of that look likes I would say yeah focusing on the community angle right so we want to have a critical mass of people to feed and in terms of road map so we have next year

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   early next year at least launching a couple of more Farms afterwards launching the token protocol so that will allow us to launch yeah dozens of farms for communities like Finance farms for communities that need it the most so I would say yeah end of next year or 2024 uh already empowering communities to launch their own Farms more traceable more sustainable and just like be able to grow in their own food That's Where It's At man what's like

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    your favorite thing that you're growing at Rice Farms like what's the what's your favorite thing and and is it is it tasty are things tasty it's pretty damn tasty I will have to say Dill it's uh it's our new star it's it's the real deal it's um yeah we started with basil so basically it's uh an all-time favorite but but deal it's like very unique and not a lot of people can find it so I

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    think that's uh something pretty special all right is that is it pretty easy to grow to the dill or is it like it's pretty difficult yeah that's actually why we started growing it because there was people restaurants people saying that hey we can't find deal so we took that challenge and we could grow it successfully so yeah that's like also what we're looking for now like high value crops specialty crops and eventually more and more high protein crops that are very nutritious for communities yeah

12. 5:52

    well Emiliano is there anything you would like to say to the near Community to the people we appreciate your time and uh yeah is there anything else you'd like to say man no just keep racing keep racing uh to anyone out there I think just uh of course support us in our different channels where we're a young startup but we're growing and I think it's it's all about community so be it

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    uh token launch next year fundraising this year or any kind of Partnerships or any kind of uh people that want to launch their own their own Farms don't hesitate to shoot us a message and we'll be happy to to deploy more reforms with the community and once again how can people get involved how can they find it they can go to like uh the website they can buy an nft to our Twitter account it's uh race

14. 6:42

    Farms r-a-i-z farms uh also to our yeah different channels either LinkedIn Twitter Instagram or website and we'll be happy to accommodate any requests and uh yeah just let's go let's do it thank you for your time man I appreciate you foreign