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Iowa's agriculture future changing with Nebullam indoor farm in Ames


Des Moines Register
Forget Iowa s rich and abundant soil. If the future is growing lettuce vertically indoors, then the future is now.
Tucked in a spacious room at the Iowa State University Research Park are walls upon walls of lettuce hugging shelves upon shelves of microgreens and tomato plants. 
The indoor farm, called Nebullam, offers a startup subscription service for free delivery of fresh-grown produce to residents doorsteps throughout the Ames and Des Moines metros.
Co-founder Clayton Mooney knows that feeding hundreds of people with walls of lettuce grown indoors seems improbable in a state famous for its endless fields of corn and soybeans. But it s a system he said he and fellow founder Danen Pool believe is the shape of things to come. ....

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Short-duration paddy varieties can turn the tide


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Groundwater Conservation
Baldev Singh Dhillon and Raj Kumar
PUNJAB is facing an alarming situation with respect to groundwater resources. In the report, Groundwater Resources of Punjab as on March 31, 2017, prepared by the Central Ground Water Board and Water Resources & Environment Directorate of Punjab, it is highlighted in red, “If the present rate of extraction continues, the available groundwater resources may exhaust in 20 to 25 years.”
India faced severe food shortage during the 1950s and 1960s. In the second half of the 1960s, high-yielding varieties of wheat and paddy and their complementary production-protection technology packages became available. The government formulated a landmark policy of fixing the MSP and procurement of the produce, and took many other initiatives for national food security. These developments gave an impetus to paddy cultivation in Punjab. From 1965-66 to 2019-20, the area under paddy increased 10.7 times (2.93 to 31. ....

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