Srinagar, March 2 -- In land deficient Jammu & Kashmir, Vertical Farming is the only hope

By Dr Raja Muzaffar Bhat

DUE to very small land holdings, the majority of the farmers in Jammu and Kashmir are officially recognized as marginal farmers. The size of small agricultural landholdings in J&K was estimated at 0.55 hectares during the agriculture census 2015-16, but unofficial sources say that land holding is much smaller (around 0.45 hectares ). In Kashmir Valley, the size is even smaller. During the 2010-2011 agriculture census, the average size of operational land holdings in India was 1.15 hectares. This figure was lower, at 0.62 hectares in Jammu and Kashmir. Districts in Kashmir valley had even lower landholding sizes than the sta...