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Welcome to the Kashmir Valley, and to the breath-taking views of its apple orchards. As India’s major apple basket, 90 percent of Kashmir’s horticultural area is under apple cultivation, spreading across nearly 165,000 hectares, next only to China. Kashmir apples are superior in taste –being sweet and juicy, it is popular in the market, but […]

Indigenous craft, contemporary design, innovative marketing, social compliance norms, and SourceTrace’s solution come together on a common platform at Aarong Vibrant colours, intricate designs and an array of textures line the shelves of Aarong, Bangladesh’s premier fashion store.  But behind these eye-catching and appealing products is the story of how indigenous craft, contemporary design, innovate […]

The movement towards organic agriculture began even as synthetic inputs were still finding its way into farms in many countries. While chemical farming was becoming the order of the day, in some quiet corners of the world, as early as the 1940’s, emerged a trend that moved away from this growing reliance on synthetic fertilizers […]

Flowers have the innate capacity to lift our feelings and enhance our mood – people all over the world realize this, and a bouquet of flowers becomes the chosen gift on many-an-occasion.  Globalization and cultural exchanges have added to this trend – to the extent that flowers have been paired with events – like roses […]

Between farm and fork, agricultural produce navigates a crucial link in the supply chain – the warehouse.  The warehouse is a vital point that provides a safe structure in which the crop is stored after harvest until it’s on its way to wholesalers or retailers.  Warehouses play an important function in agricultural marketing, by way of […]

River deltas are hotspots for aquaculture.  These are landforms formed by the deposition of sediment carried by the river as it flows to the mouth of the sea, giving rise to slow-moving or stagnant water.  The brackish water and absence of strong currents provide ideal conditions for fish and crustaceans to breed, thus making it […]

The agriculture of today needs to feed a growing world at a time when there are fewer people on farms, and still fewer acres in production each year.  The only way to meet the challenge is to produce more with less.  The two important components in doing this are technology and management: thus farms, big […]

A business that derives its primary income from an agricultural input or process is called agribusiness. Agribusinesses quite often don’t deal with actual farming but are in the business of producing farm inputs, such as farm machinery and seeds. Agribusinesses also take up marketing of farm products – and these include facilities like warehouses, wholesale, […]

No longer are farmers using notebooks and spreadsheets to manage farms and keep records – they are fast making the switch to farm management software.  The modern farm is coping with a great deal more than food production: climate change, pest and disease attack, decreasing soil fertility and depleting resources.  At the consumer end too, […]