Significance of Vertical Farming and Urban Agriculture for Metropolitan Cities in India
M. Likhitha
Dept. of Agriculture, Jagan Nath University, Jaipur, Rajasthan (303 901), India
Manjeet Kaur
Dept. of Agriculture, Jagan Nath University, Jaipur, Rajasthan (303 901), India
O. P. Sharma
Dept. of Agriculture, Jagan Nath University, Jaipur, Rajasthan (303 901), India
Geeta Mohan*
Dept. of Agriculture, Jagan Nath University, Jaipur, Rajasthan (303 901), India
DOI: NIL
Keywords: IKheti, Roof Top Garden, UGF Farms, Vertical Farming
Abstract
Urban agriculture can reflect varying levels of economic and social development. It may be a social movement for sustainable communities, where organic growers from social networkers found on a shared ethos of nature and community holism. With land constraints increasing in Metropolitan cities, it is difficult to designate land for farming thus in this case for ensuring food security with innovative technologies like Roof Top Gardens (RTG), Vertical Farming, IKheti, UGF Farms and Home Crops can be an alternative option in urban farming. By identifying the need, problems and possible alternative approaches, and based on these factors highlighting the potential possible optimistic future of India. Farming in Metropolitan cities is the need of today for securing future cities food and raw materials demand. Monetary attainability, codes, guidelines and an absence of aptitude stay significant hindrance in the way to executing various methods of farming.
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