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Modern agricultural practices are finding favour among farmers
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Modern agricultural practices are finding favour among farmers
“It has been a long wait and I am happy now,” says Aneesh N Raj, excited about the arrival of seeds of butter lettuce and bok choy from Holland. The 36-year-old, winner of the Kerala State award for the best hi-tech farmer of 2017-18, has four polyhouses, and aquaponics and hydroponics farms on 50 cents at his home in Anchal, Kollam district.
In addition, nearly 25 hi-tech farms have been set up in different parts of Kerala by his startup, QORE3 Innovations. “For instance, seeds of long beans come from Thailand, salad cucumber from Turkey and capsicum from Holland,” he says. His farm has leafy greens such as