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Thursday September 26, 2024 11:00am - 11:15am HST
These days it has become almost impossible to depend on climate for agricultural production of any crops mainly horticultural crops. Unpredictable climate conditions have been a significant challenge to growers. Therefore, it is an urgent need for horticultural educators, researchers, and growers to come up with new approach to explore new farming techniques. This abstract is to discuss over 8 years experiences of research and education on Indoor Ag includes hydroponics with vertical, horizontal, fully automated, or partially automated farming techniques. It has enormous potential to overcome all challenges that is claimed to grow plants and global food security due to population growth, unpredictable climate, water scarcity, space, labor, and food safety related. Indoor Ag is mainly soilless, it is controlled environment agriculture (CEA). Opening educating opportunities to new generation who can come up with new innovative designs with new techniques to improve it for better. In recent times Indoor Ag has come up with very high expectation, and capable of growing plants from several hundred times more than traditional farming per year. Besides, Indoor Ag (IA) facility or controlled environment agriculture could produce the best quality crops. With the experiences in Indoor Ag along with traditional outdoor Ag, the conclusion is we need to develop education, research, and extension curricula about Indoor Ag, urgently. Indoor Ag as a new discipline it has a few challenges but could be overcome easily by our intelligent next generation students. They can take Indoor Ag education, research and production techniques as the future Horticulture. At present, globally a limited number of faculties and researchers has been involved that needed to be increased through interest and hands-on training in this new technology. It has been observed, most of the Indoor Ag is run by business owners and for business secret they cannot share their true success story to increase competition that we all agree. But we researchers who have been working for the better future to overcome multifaceted challenges can see the Indoor Ag as potential alternative. Therefore, now is the time we should adopt Horticultural education, research, and production through Indoor Ag. We need to develop academic courses, education, and research activities from K-12 to undergraduate and graduate programs in college and Universities. So, whoever involved in agricultural research and education at this moment Indoor Ag should be our goal to make it future global horticulture education, research, and production method.
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BIPUL BISWAS

FORT VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY
Thursday September 26, 2024 11:00am - 11:15am HST
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