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Op-Ed | India Must Redesign its Agriculture Based on Regenerative Farming

Food Tank

For example, soil and vegetation on farms remove carbon from the atmosphere, regulate hydrological flows, and shelter pollinators who pollinate crops. Soil organic carbon in arable land in India has been reduced from 2.4 Ecosystem services are the benefits provided by nature and managed by farmers on their farmland.

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Cultivating Profits in a Compact Crop

Modern Farmer

It’s a great gateway crop,” says Don DiLillo, owner of Finest Foods in Huntington, New York, for ushering in a new breed of novice farmers. Yet with California’s agricultural hub dominated by large-scale farms and commodity crops, he’s found a comfortable niche at his local farmers market.

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A Blueprint for Cooling our Blue Planet

Farming Secrets

What is the main contributor to the greenhouse gas effect? What would you think if I said water vapor contributes to up to 80 % of the Greenhouse gas effect and Carbon Dioxide only 11 %?How How would you approach reducing global warming if you took the perspective that Greenhouse gases are too much of a good thing in the wrong place?

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Can Agriculture Kick Its Plastic Addiction?

Civil Eats

Black polyethylene “mulch film” gets tucked snugly around crop rows, clear plastic sheeting covers hoop houses, and most farmers use plastic seed trays, irrigation tubes, and fertilizer bags. All told, annual greenhouse gases released from plastic production, landfilling, and incineration total 850 million tons , or 4.5

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Challenges and Innovations Driving the CEA Sector in GCC and MENA

Agritecture Blog

Credit: World Resources Institute According to Strategy and PWC , GCC countries import about 85% of their food and approximately 56% of vegetables, largely due to the highly limited arable land in the region, averaging 4.25%. At the heart of each greenhouse lies cloud-based monitoring, facilitating optimal crop management.

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Agritecture’s Top 10 Blog Posts of 2022

Agritecture Blog

Two people look at the crops in a vertical farm. kWh per kg of harvested crop, on average. National Geographic estimates that we’ll need to “roughly double the amount of crops we grow by 2050.” 9 Universities Creating the Agricultural Workforce of Tomorrow Strawberries growing in the Guterman Bioclimatic Laboratory Greenhouse.

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WILD SCIENCE FICTION

The Lunatic Farmer

All other livestock industries will suffer a similar fate, while the knock-on effects for crop farmers and businesses throughout the value chain will be severe. Crop farming volume, such as soy, corn, and alfalfa, will fall by more than 50 percent. The volume of crops needed to feed cattle in the U.S.

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