Agriculture & Industry

NewVistas communities aim to be a value-creation hub, a center of industrial excellence and value addition, and a place where as many people as possible are involved in healthy food production.

Food production areas

Food production in the community begins at the door-step. In every apartment building, there is a grove on the second floor, where the residential part of the building begins. The grove, measuring 24 feet in width and 64 feet across, is planted with various fruit trees, which can be managed to ensure a steady supply of a few fruits every season.

Past the breezeway, between two apartments, there is a wide swathe of land – 66 feet across. In the Plat, this space is known as a street, or a village square. The community leases out this land to farmers to plant various vegetables and fruits. Each farmer gets a small part, to encourage more farmers, including those engaged in other professions, to lend a hand in food production.

Outside the community’s built-up campus, there are mirrored villages that are the same size as the physical campus. These mirrored blocks, also known as the industrial zone, are dedicated to intensive agriculture and heavy industry.

The industrial zone is divided into three parts. One part, the agricultural zone, features Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO) units, where animals meant for food production are reared before slaughter. In all cases, the community strongly advocates pasture-raised meat, which is healthier and more flavorful. The CAFOs, therefore, concentrate on the last stages of an animal’s life to condition meat and get animals to the standard weight.

Still in the agricultural blocks, there is controlled environment agriculture, which includes vertical farms, greenhouses, and associated technologies, including aquaponics and hydroponics. CEA focuses on producing fresh vegetables and fruit for consumption and sale.

A second part of the industrial zone is occupied by factories where raw material is processed. The third part is covered by logistics centers, and a major grain storage facility.

Grains, such as wheat, are grown beyond the mirrored blocks in cropland surrounding the community. Here, too, are pastures that are used to rear animals for much of their life before they are taken into CAFO units for the latter stages.

The meat the community rears is complemented by red meat which is harvested from natural bison, bovine, and ovine herds out in wilderness areas. The amount of red meat harvested from the wild depends on the abundance of such meat and the legal framework in the region where a community is located, since such activities are illegal or severely restricted in some areas.

In producing food, whether within the community or in the cropland, pastures, and hinterlands, a core objective is to produce enough healthy food. Agency 5, which governs food production, provides the structures and guidelines through which farmers and other players operate.

In many cases, however, a community may produce enough food, but of a variety that threatens to make menus bland or lacking in variety. It can then trade this food with other communities or external buyers, and import other types of food to complement what it already has. For instance, some types of fish only thrive in wild saline waters, rather than fish farms. a community in a deeply interior region will trade to get this fish as the demand says.

When farmers produce food such as grains, they store it in the large scale grain storage facility in the industrial zone. the produce is first processed to ensure it is in good condition, before being stored at the farmer’s cost. The farmer therefore pays for the cubic meters they need. The produce is taken from this storage for further processing or consumption, with the movements being handled by logistics businesses.

There is minimal processing in mining areas, with raw material being transported to the community once extracted. Heavy industrial activities, such as oil refineries, steel fabrication, and other similar endeavors are also carried out in the industrial zone within the mirrored blocks. The blocks also include warehouses and logistics centers, so that within the community, only light industry and minimal storage is done, mainly within apartment buildings’ podium floors.