Remember the days when we’d sit glued to the train window as vast expanses of fields whizzed past? Fast forward to the present day and we now know that those fields are laden with factory-produced pesticides, insecticides and fertilizers and growing one’s own food leaves us feeling like we’ve lost our connection to the soil to such an extent, we don’t know where to begin. But there’s good news: It turns out we don’t have to choose between living in urban spaces and giving up your smartphone to move to the countryside.

Technology, it seems, has the answer. Tech entrepreneurs across the country are creating a whole subset of agriculture: urban farming...................Read more

Source: The Hindu