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Drones effective tools for fruit farmers
Jan 13, 2020 (SPX)
Yet, in agriculture, drones aren't dull, at all! Farmers use drones to be more efficient. Drones help farmers improve yields and stay ahead of problems before t...
German competition watchdog swats pesticide firms
Jan 13, 2020 (AFP)
"Investigations have shown that the companies agreed on price lists for plant protection products in the spring and autumn of each year between 1998 and... Marc...
LED lighting in greenhouses helps but standards are needed
Jan 13, 2020 (SPX)
Many lighting companies market their LED (light-emitting diode) products with claims of delivering an optimal "light recipe" that often consists of a combinatio...
Research team traces evolution of the domesticated tomato
Jan 13, 2020 (SPX)
The missing link that deserves more attention than it has gotten to date, they say, is one of a number of intermediate variants between the fully wild and fully...
Improved functioning of diverse landscape mosaics
Jan 10, 2020 (SPX)
A research team led by Niklaus and part of the Research Priority Program "Global Change and Biodiversity" investigated how different land-cover areas affect veg...
Food stirs up interest at Vegas tech show
Jan 09, 2020 (AFP)
Food and tech have come together at the annual lifestyle and gadget extravaganza, with blockchain, artificial intelligence, voice recognition and computer visio...
Fire-hit Australian farmers vow to rise from the ashes
Jan 09, 2020 (AFP)
He is one of several dozen residents who remained in the southeastern Australian town to protect his animals as authorities urged everyone to leave last week, c...
China's farmers reap rich harvest through video-sharing apps
Jan 07, 2020 (AFP)
The clip goes out to his 737,000 followers on Douyin, the Chinese version of popular video sharing app TikTok that has 400 million users in the country and has ...
As Trump tariffs loom, US wine lovers battle tech giants
Jan 05, 2020 (AFP)
President Donald Trump last month threatened to punish Paris for a new tax on tech giants like Netflix and Amazon, unveiling sky-high retaliatory duties on abou...
Locust invasion destroys crops in northwest India
Dec 27, 2019 (AFP)
While officials have attempted to tackle the swarm with pesticides, farmers have deployed drums to drive away the insects, with videos showing schoolgirls bangi...
Scientists observe earliest steps in seed germination
Dec 27, 2019 (UPI)
Using a new kind of fluorescent biosensor, researchers were able to watch energy metabolism and a sulfur-powered process called redox metabolism. The new observ...
Changing times put I.Coast's rubber industry under pressure
Dec 25, 2019 (AFP)
"Well-managed rubber production is an asset," said Eugene Kremien, the president of the Association of Professionals of Natural Rubber (APROMAC), whose detracto...
High-def mapping of moisture in the soil
Dec 19, 2019 (SPX)
Trying to gauge soil moisture across large areas - regions, nations, continents - is a whole 'nother challenge, and a critical one. Knowledge of this dimension ...
Cholera kills over 27,000 pigs in Indonesia
Dec 14, 2019 (AFP)
Thousands of pigs have died in more than a dozen regencies across North Sumatra over the past three months, and the pace of deaths is increasing, authorities sa...
Significant potential demonstrated by digital agricultural advice
Dec 13, 2019 (SPX)
A new paper co-authored by Nobel Prize winner and Precision Agriculture for Development (PAD) co-founder, Michael Kremer, and his colleagues Raissa Fabregas (Un...
The farm goods at the heart of the US-China trade war
Dec 12, 2019 (AFP)
- How much do the US and China trade? - From 2008, China was either the largest or second-largest importer of American agricultural products. That all changed w...
Thai rice farmers shun 'big agribusiness' and fight climate change
Dec 12, 2019 (AFP)
Walking through a sea of green waist-high stalks, farmer Sunnan Somjak said his fields were "exhausted" by chemicals, his family regularly felt ill, and his pro...
Large atmospheric waves in the jet stream present risk to global food production
Dec 10, 2019 (SPX)
Their research finds that these simultaneous heatwaves significantly reduce crop production across those regions, creating the risk of multiple harvest failures...
Megadroughts forced Peruvian farmers into cloud forests 1,200 years ago
Dec 10, 2019 (UPI)
native Andean farmers some 1,200 years ago. Today, cloud forests serve as a sanctuary for species chased to higher elevations by rising global temperatures and ...
Reduced soil tilling helps both soils and yields
Dec 09, 2019 (SPX)
"Reduced tillage is a win-win for agriculture across the Corn Belt," said study lead author Jillian Deines, a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford's Center on Food ...
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