Creating local solutions for local agricultural challenges is crucial for sustainable farming practices. It's time to prioritize innovation over imitation to truly impact our agricultural sector. See how HyKrops Farm is paving the way for meaningful change in the space of Agritech, especially in Hydroponics.
Today, urban areas and cities may enjoy a digital cosy lifestyle, but with crazy amounts of pollution to breathe. If we had to look into sustainable living spaces, we might have to go back in time and inspect how our grandparents lived and worked with limited resources but with happy hearts. Agrihood is a modern building concept inspired by our ancestral living. Agrihoods are springing all over the world; here is an article that
talks about an Agrihood in the US and one in India.
Recognising and compensating individuals and organisations that ethically obtain raw materials and products for urban dwellers while protecting our complex ecosystems is crucial.
We take our natural ecosystems for granted: they sequester carbon, clean our air and water, generate materials for our sustenance, safeguard wildlife habitats, provide a livelihood for indigenous communities and preserve the most bio-complex ecological processes that support life on Earth and maintain its functioning homeostasis.
Find out how Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) is the only proactive and effective way to protect the environment and ensure a sustainable future.
The classic air pollution case in north India (allegedly caused by farm fires/stubble burning) is signalling a dystopian future for us unless we stop playing the blame game every year and actively take part in climate action.
Talk is cheap, and it is easy to point fingers at a group, especially a marginalised one shouldering intersectional burdens. So what can different stakeholders holding various forms of power/responsibility do to stop this crisis?
In Marshall McLuhan's words, one can find the answer to this: 'There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew'.
Millennials and Gen Z have contributed to many sustainable innovations for a decade now. But, do we have the right mindset to adopt such solutions? How ready is our Indian market? Are we even open to evaluating them yet? Sustainable development can happen only if we are cognizant of what we are doing and willing to unlearn and evaluate the solutions available to us and choose wisely instead of being rigid and sticking to our old habits.
Today, on World Soil Day, we would like to discuss about Urea Deep Placement and how this sustainable innovation was received by our farmers in Tamil Nadu.