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    Introduction to Agriculture: History, Context and Global Trends
    (The Pustakalaya, 2025) Yaduvendra Singh, Nadeem Khan
    Agriculture is the stage upon which human societies have choreographed their survival, innovation and transformation for millennia. This chapter presents a broad but textured introduction to agriculture: its deep historical roots, the ways in which farming practices and systems have evolved and the major global trends shaping the present and near future. Rather than an encyclopedic treatment, the text aims to offer a readable academic overview that balances technical clarity with human context. It describes major shifts from early domestication and land-use patterns to industrialization, the Green Revolution and contemporary moves toward digital and regenerative approaches. The piece also explores the economic, social and environmental forces that frame agricultural decision-making at farm, landscape and policy scales. The conclusion synthesizes lessons and points toward pathways that reconcile productivity, resilience, equity and ecology
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    Vertical Farming, Controlled Environment Agriculture & Urban Farming
    (The Pustakalaya, 2025) Yaduvendra Singh, Nadeem Khan
    Vertical farming and controlled environment agriculture (CEA) represent a rapidly evolving set of approaches that move food production into engineered, often urban, spaces. By controlling light, temperature, humidity, nutrient delivery and air quality, these systems decouple crop growth from local weather and seasonality, offering year-round production, rapid crop cycles and high yields per unit footprint. It explains core system types, the physiology of crops in artificial environments, engineering components (lighting, HVAC, fertigation), resource flows and efficiencies, business models and economics, environmental trade-offs, social and policy dimensions and the research frontiers shaping the field. The piece aims to be academically rigorous without feeling dry centered on the day-to-day realities of operators, investors, planners and city residents who will steward the next wave of urban food systems.