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Ever since I penned the article ‘Being Shameless’ I have been in deep cycles of contemplation & exploring new opportunities in agriculture & horticulture, one of the nascent areas where social entrepreneurship can play a very important role. ‘Operation Flood’ of Dr. Verghese Kurien, the father of the white revolution went onto become one of the world’s biggest agricultural development program and took India from being a milk-deficient country to the largest milk producer in t

Is the era of using 40 mesh getting replaced with 10-15 mesh hail-nets for better light control (off-course using various shade-nets below the hail-net) in net-houses ?. A 40 mesh will has a light transmissivity of 70% and air permeability of 50%, where as a 10mesh hail-net has a light transmissivity of 90% and air permeability of 70%. Using a 10 mesh hail-net in combination with a retractable secondary layer of shade-net you have better control on light for both sunny and cl