Now, grow veggies on your rooftop — ICAR-CPRI style

Having developed technologies for farmers for potato cultivation all these years, the Central Potato Research Institute of the Indian Council for Agricultural Research here has now come up with a completely diversified training module.

Based at Badshahpur village on Nakodar Road here, the institute has come up with VegFast. Bearing a tagline in Hindi ‘Ghar par ugayein taza khaien’, it is a technology for rooftop vegetable production, for which the institute has even sought patent. Developed by five member agri-business incubator team comprising two engineers Dr Sukhwinder Singh and Dr Brajesh Nare, vegetable scientist Dr Sugani Devi, food technologist Dr Arvind Jaiswal and agriculturist Yogesh Gupta, the much-simplified technique has several new features.

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