Corporate Farming and Vertical Farming: The Growing Trend—A Study

P.K. Paul¹ , R.R. Sinha² , Pappachan Baby³ , Ricardo Saavedra⁴ , Bashiru Aremu⁵

Section:Review Paper, Product Type: Journal-Paper
Vol.8 , Issue.4 , pp.21-26, Dec-2020

Online published on Dec 31, 2020

Copyright © P.K. Paul, R.R. Sinha, Pappachan Baby, Ricardo Saavedra, Bashiru Aremu . This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
 

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Abstract :
Agriculture is not only about practicing but also a field of study. It is considered as an Applied Science apart from the holding biological science aspects social science due to its nature. For the agricultural production different kind of tools, techniques, methods, principles are used and these are related to the biology, management science, mathematics, animal science etc. In cultivating plants, crops, vegetables, livestock including in animals etc Agricultural Science is important and valuable. The concept of agriculture was evolved about thousands of years ago (i.e. 105,000 years ago) and as far as regarding the nascent farmers, 11,500 years ago it has developed. Initially, it was considered only for the agricultural and plants related products but gradually animals like pigs, sheep and cattle are also treated as a part of agricultural sciences. There are few differences between the Agricultural and Cultivation. Cultivation normally practiced in the small area however agriculture happens in a large area with good amount of expenditure. Internationally there are 11 regions responsible for the cultivation commercially. Agriculture is an interdisciplinary subjects and also growing rapidly. There are few concern in emerging Agriculture viz. Chemical Agriculture, Green Agriculture, Agro Genetic engineering, Organic Farming, Corporate Farming, Vertical Farming, etc. This paper is theoretical and analyzed various aspects of agriculture with the aspects, features, role, and emergence of corporate farming and vertical farming as well.

Key-Words / Index Term :
Agriculture, Agricultural Science, Emerging Agriculture, Corporate Farming, Vertical Farming, Agro Business

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