SRINAGAR, April 17 -- To grow "Mushk Budji" twice a year in a soil-less environment, two Agriculture Scientists of the Agriculture Department Kulgam have successfully conducted an experiment of Kashmir's aromatic rice by using vertical farming, requiring less space compared to traditional farming.

As per the news agency CNS, the experiment through vertical farming to sow Mushk Budji, which is anticipated to be cultivated twice a year with the new method of farming, was conducted by Dr Zahoor and Dr Kousar Makeen under the direction of the Director Agriculture Kashmir Chowdhury Mohammad Iqbal.

"In vertical farming, plants grow in upright towers and the Mushk Budji too has been experimented to develop in the same way, which requires compa...