The diet  for  military personnel on mission must ensure a sufficient nutritional intake to cover energy needs, both to satisfy the physiological-metabolic aspect in normal and operative  activities, and for the psychological-behavioral aspect, which is crucial in order to preserve an excellent  level of psycho-physical well-being, suitable for facing the most varied situations.

Unfavorable environmental conditions, the intense and stressful physical activity to which military personnel are subjected, lack of sleep, psychological stress, and the lack or reduced availability of food can lead to severe alterations in the immune response and thus increase the risk of developing infections. Instead, supplying the military with adequate nutrients,  it could reduce the risk of suppressing immune responses.

The phytochemicals present in vitamin supplements and pills do not show the same efficacy they have when they find themselves acting synergistically in plant foods.

During missions of medium / long duration in hostile and disadvantaged environments there is the difficulty in having “fresh” vegetables with a high nutraceutical content.

The «MIG Container Farm» is a “Vertical Farm” ( centers of self-production of food, which aim to recreate the environmental situations suitable for the growth of various types of plants and vegetables within any type of building or greenhouses by exploiting the space in height: within each floor of a Vertical Farm there are hydroponic cultivations ) based on a standard shelter equipped, closed, sterile, easily transportable, modular and completely automated, able to manage all the phases of cultivation from sowing to harvest, which allows the cultivation of micro and baby vegetables without the use of agronomist personnel.