welcome to bbc news. the environment secretary, michael gove, has suggested the government could support a lifting of the one per cent pay the government could support a lifting of the 1% pay cap for public sector workers as calls grow for ministers to ease austerity measures. he told the bbc‘s andrew marr show the government should respect the integrity of the independent bodies that review pay for groups including nurses, teachers and the police. 0ur political correspondent emma vardy reports. complaining about seven years of austerity, not one day more was the slogan for protesters yesterday. the plan to drive down the deficit has meant year after year of pay freezes and caps for some 5 million public sector workers. but that could be about to change. the environment secretary, michael gove, said that if independent pay review bodies recommend a rise, then the government should accept it. i think we should listen to the pay review bodies who govern each individual ar
food, glorious food. fake kippers and burgers. we are in the mood for pink herbs and green motors. this is salad, grown the old fashioned way. you know, in shipping containers, under led lights, without soil, in an optimised water and nutrient mix. as farmer spock called it, good old hydroponics. in all seriousness, it s been suggested that the type of intense farming going on here at local roots in los angeles could help solve the world s food problems in years to come. transport costs can be reduced by growing plants wherever they are needed, even in areas of famine where the land and climate are too harsh. you get higher volumes and many more crop cycles during the year, too. lettuce can be grown in 30 days instead of up to 90 outdoors, and a new crop can be grown immediately. all in all, one of these containers yields the same as five acres of land over the course of a year. it s very similar to the strawberry farm that we saw in paris in the spring and in miyagi injapan
The University of Missouri Adair County Extension will host a hydroponics workshop at the Missouri Department of Conservation Northeast Regional office on May 8
Agritech startups: Think beyond organic, think hydroponics The Pelican had just begun to take off when Cyclone Fani struck the eastern coast of India in 2019. Haraprasad Mohapatra, a retired master mariner from Teisipur in Odisha, had started Pelican Aeroponic Farms just a year ago to grow exotic vegetables such as lettuce, kale, basil, cherry