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Hydroponics is a good substitute to Soil Based Farming
What is Hydroponics? Hydroponics is a type of cultivation method that does not use soil and essential nutrients are supplied to the plants using water as solvent. The growing medium can be Perlite, sand, Rockwool, etc. Hydroponic systems allow minute
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Smart Farming is the future of Agriculture
What is Smart Farming? Smart farming is the new age farming technique which utilizes information and data technologies for bringing innovation transformation in the conventional farming systems. It encompasses not just farm machineries but also farm operations. Farmers and other
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Aquaponics – Improving Organic Farming and Making it More Sustainable
What is Aquaponics? Aquaponics is a system of aquaculture in which the waste produced by farmed fish or other aquatic creatures supplies the nutrients for plants grown hydroponically, which in turn purify the water. The organic produce market in India
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Farmers’ Portal: Technological innovation in agriculture
About Farmers’ Portal The Farmers’ Portal of the Department of Agriculture & Cooperation is a platform designed for farmers to seek any information related to agriculture. Detailed information on crop insurance, agricultural storage facilities, crops, extension activities, seeds, pesticides, farm
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Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) : Initiatives to encourage Sustainable Agriculture
About HUL Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) is the Indian subsidiary of Unilever, a British-Dutch multinational company. Hindustan Lever was formed in 1956 by the merger of Hindustan Vanaspati Manufacturing Company, Lever Brothers India Ltd and United Traders Ltd. Hindustan Unilever’s
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Get good scores in your Soil Health Card (SHC)
Soil health card(SHC) scheme 2015 India’s unique programme of Soil Health Card was launched on February 19, 2015 by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi at Suratgarh, Rajasthan. The objectives of the Soil Health Card scheme was to issue soil health
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Indian Agriculture gets a boost by private players like ITC
About ITC ITC originally known as the Imperial Tobacco Company of India Limited was incorporated in the year 1910. ITC remarkably transformed from a tobacco and Hotels Company to one of India’s fastest growing FMCG companies and the country’s 3rd largest food
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Digital Transactions are becoming popular with Indian farmers
Digital Transactions have been gaining a lot of traction in the last few years in the country. India has traditionally been a cash based economy, especially in rural areas. The move to declare high value currency notes as illegal tender
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Adani Group is adding value in Agriculture too
Founded in 1988 as a commodity trading business, Adani group is an Indian Multinational Conglomerate with the flagship company Adani Enterprises Limited (previously Adani Exports Limited). With an annual turnover of over US $ 13 Billion and business operations in
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GPS/GNSS technology aids farmers mapping of Farms in India
GPS/GNSS technology allows farmers to plan their crop yields by becoming aware of the soil quality. Precision agriculture is seen as the next big revolution in the agriculture industry and use of navigation based technologies to aid farming is one
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