The Division of Agriculture of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has grown tomato crop via vertical farming in Khyber district with fashionable agricultural means, which gave 3 to 4 instances extra manufacturing in much less space.
Vertical farming is a contemporary agricultural means, through which vegetation are grown above the bottom with the assistance of helps.
Khyber District Agriculture Division Director Ziaul Islam mentioned: ‘Zamindars had been interested in vertical farming in two years. It was once a hard section because the landlords right here most well-liked conventional farming. Then again, we succeeded in attracting them to trendy strategies.’
Ziaul Islam says that underneath vertical farming, tomatoes had been cultivated in 3 tehsils of Khyber district, whilst the experiment was once extra a hit in Bara and Jamrud.
He additional mentioned that there’s a scarcity of cultivable land in Khyber district and because of the rise in inhabitants, the inclination of the citizens in opposition to farming is lowering. “The strategy to this downside international is rising within the type of vertical farming.”
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Ziaul Islam says that during vertical farming, as much as 25 kg of fruit can also be received from one plant of a particular form of tomato.
About 150 registered zamindars of Khyber district had been supplied with this particular tomato seed and different essential apparatus for vertical farming.
Irshad Malaguri, a farmer who cultivates tomatoes thru vertical farming in Khyber district, advised Unbiased Urdu that in relation to conventional farming, the crop was once broken via borers and different bugs.
‘In vertical farming, the stems of the vegetation are above the bottom, so they’re safe from bugs and so forth.
‘I’ve bought the produce from 4 kanals of land for 4 lakh rupees.’
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