Because quicker growth cycles allow vertical farmers to produce a greater yield, slower cycles—such as those of wheat and other cereals—could dampen a farm’s ability to gain positive returns on its ...

Wheat is a rotation crop that is grown locally to break up the cycle between growing the same crop every season.

For Punjab farmers, the euphoria over green revolution successes has long been eclipsed by issues of survival. Stuck in the wheat-paddy cycle, most farmers have adopted a model of mass production ...