Advanced farming mooted to ensure food security

Added on 10 January 2022

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Advanced farming mooted to ensure food security

Founder of Urban Farms Manipur (UFM) Yumnam Neeraj has stressed on the need to adopt advanced farming methods to ensure food sustainability and food security because of the increasing population and limited land resources available.

Yumnam Neeraj (31) is son of Yumnam Birchandra and Yumnam (o) Dhanamanjuri Devi of Kongpal Kshetri Leikai. He graduated from Doon College of Agriculture, Dehradun and completed MSc in Agronomy from Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar, Punjab where he worked as a teacher for some time.

Neeraj took Hydroponic as a dissertation topic while pursuing his Master's degree in 2014 and established UFM in 2019 at the rooftop of his house by planting over 1,500 plants to promote Hydroponic and later shifted to Yaralpat where he has been practicing the modern farming method.

Hydroponics is a type of horticulture and a subset of hydroculture which involves growing plants (usually crops) without soil, by using mineral nutrient solutions in an aqueous solvent.

Urban Farms Manipur mainly focuses on growing Leaf Cabbage (Kale), Celery, Bok Choy and Napa Cabbage and has a plan to cultivate King Chilly (U-Morok), Cherry Tomato too in future.

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