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 Innovative Agricultural Practices That Are Changing the World- Digitization in the modern age means that almost every contemporary field or industry is becoming more and more reliant on hardware connected to and, in some cases, controlled by software. These industries are being transformed from the inside out by innovative technology and practices, and even traditionally analogue ways of life are finding it difficult to resist disruption. Agriculture is a prime example of one of these industries, with the experts at Maryville University actually including it as one of "ten on fire" fields for up-and-coming software developers. “The agriculture industry has experienced a massive technological shift of late,” they write. “Precision agriculture involves big data, drones, sensors, and farm management software …  Environmental controls, cellular agriculture (micro farms), smart packaging technology, gene manipulation, and e-grocer businesses have also pushed the entire agricultur
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New In the Basket : Season additional

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Seasonal Crops The Indian cropping  season  is classified into two main  seasons -(i) Kharif and (ii) Rabi based on the monsoon.  The Kharif cropping  season  is from July –October during the south-west monsoon and the Rabi cropping  season  is from October-March (winter). The  crops  grown between March and June are summer  crops. The kharif crops include rice, maize, sorghum, pearl millet/bajra, finger millet/ragi (cereals), arhar (pulses), soyabean, groundnut (oilseeds), cotton etc. The rabi crops include wheat, barley, oats (cereals), chickpea/gram (pulses), linseed, mustard (oilseeds) etc. The farmers are mainly dependent on these crops as they are easy to grow and require less investment. We at the cityfarm also focuses on selling these crops so that poor farmers can also get the opportunity to sell their crops. HOW FARMERS SELL THEIR CROPS-  Farmers mostly sell their produce in their cart / carrier or by transports to nearby markets. While some grow crops which are taken by vari
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