Author: nkp
Hi ; I have had opportunity to travel widely and have keen watched whatever farming practices the local farmers were engaged in. Back home been growing gerberas mostly in polyhouses, but outside in kitchen garden as well. i love these hardy perennials. good for business too if done in a routine orderly scientific manner. Also engaged in farming of wheat and organic vegetables on a small scale for me and family. My service profile has been that of an electronic and telecom engineer and now am engaged in web site creation and blogging.

UAE builds world’s largest artificially desalinated water reserve in desert

Water conservation and creation of water reserve is the need for mankind. UAE is said to have created a large water reserve with desalinated water transported through large pipe from ocean to underground in a number of wells to recharge, recoer and observe the acquifer in the ground.

Posted in world events

Are Robotic Devices the future for increasing Farm Productivity

By 2050 agricultural production will have to rise by 70% to meet projected demand for food. Since most land suitable for farming is already farmed, this growth must come from higher yields and better farm management. Robotics would need to be adopted in all aspects of farming like in autonomous tractors, autonomous seeding, drone surveillance, satellite imagery for fertigation schemes etc.

Posted in Climate Change, TechTalks

Easy Calculate Amount of Fertilizer for a Given Volume

Calculation of actual requirement of fertilizer in easy and timely is important. The exact amounts of N, P and K to be provided in the life cycle of a plant are different and thus need to be calculated differently. This blog presents a simple method to calculate the amount of fertilizers through equation A = X / P x K to get the required PPM value of N,P and K for the fertigation solution.

Posted in farm guide, Fertilizers&Fertigation Tagged with: , ,

Do Farmers Need a Big Push from their Governments

This is my first blog on my site. It is appropriate that it is devoted to farmers worldwide. Farmers who toil hard facing the nature in all its colors from being friendly to adversary, fighting the odds of infestation by

Posted in farm guide Tagged with: , ,