With more than 10 years experience in Aquaponics, permaculture, and in organic farming, Urbagrow provides expert consultation to commercial enterprises and clients in India and globally. We have provided consultation on commercial aquaponics and permaculture projects to Government Organizations, Educational Institutions and individuals all over the country which has helped them build environmentally sustainable, economically viable and environment-friendly bio-balanced systems for horticulture and aquaculture.
What we do:
We share our knowledge to promote the wonders of aquaponics and permaculture to all, and aim to empower all who visit and learn with us. We provide consultancy, training and coaching online through live sessions across the world and in person at our office in Kolkata. Our key areas of expertise consultancy, training and coaching are:
- Commercial aquaponics
- Home-scale roof top aquaponics
- Permaculture design and protocols
- Organic farming design and protocols
- Urban/ peri-urban bio-balanced farming design and protocols
- Food gardens design and protocols
- Organic polyhouse farming design and protocols
- Sustainability design and protocols
- Integrated farming system design
- One-to-one coaching for DIY sustainable projects
- Educational institutes' nature-program setup
- Related R&D system setup for labs and universities
Who we are:
Located in Kolkata, India and registered as Blueplanet Urban Agro Services Pvt Ltd – we are Kolkata’s new age sustainability consultants led by veteran environmentalist (and Managing Director) Mr. Anirban Chanda, and we belong to this brave new world of self sustenance because we empower people and organizations to produce organic fish and vegetables in urban and challenged rural environments.
Aquaponics and permaculture expertise developed indigenously and over multiple annual visits to the Aberta Nova Sustainability Project, Portugal.
In more than 10 years of research and actual application, urbagrow has indigenously developed in aquaponics sytems for small and large scales specifically for Indian conditions, built with locally available materials and adjusted to infrastructure, environment and cost conditions available, with achievable ROIs.
In permaculture, principals have been adapted, modified to result in indigenously developed protocols and methods for successful and sustainable organic agriculture in urban, peri- urban and rural environments.
Our Clients Include:
- Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR)- Central Institute of Fisheries Education, Kolkata
- Catch and Carry, Goa
- Rare Earth Farm, Bangalore
- Aranyavas Farm, Jaipur
- Rukmani Amar Aangan (Senior Citizens Facilty), Kolkata
- Saptagram High School (West Bengal Government)
- Mrs. Magpie (Café), Kolkata
- Aberta Nova, Portugal
Some presentations conducted by Urbagrow's Managing Director Mr. Anirban Chanda at:
- Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (Agrifest)
- Faculty Center for Integrated Rural Development And Management, Narendrapur
- Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR)- Central Institute of Fisheries Education, Kolkata
- St. Xavier's College (Autonomous), Kolkata (Earth Day Conference)
Urbagrow also provides multi-level support to the Sundarban Chetana Sangha, a farmers' producers organization based in coastal Sunderbans 6000 plus challenged farming families.
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