Agriculture Products News
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The Big Questions Facing Agtech in 2017
As we approach the New Year, we can look forward to a year of great change, both politically and economically, and to a new, more advanced era in agtech development and adoption. The World Agri-Tech Investment Summit, hosted in San Francisco on March 28-29, will address the big questions facing the industry in 2017. In consultation with our Expert Advisory Board, we have created a dynamic and ...
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China: agricultural production and groundwater
As in many parts of the People’s Republic of China, Shanxi Province is experiencing reduced water security for the agriculture sector. Changing climate conditions, including reduced rainfall, are increasing reliance on groundwater resources in the province. Unsustainable groundwater use for food production intensifies the impacts of climate change, and cost-effective adaptation responses ...
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Eima 2016: A success for irrigation
Energy saving and maximum efficiency are the cardinal points of agriculture 2.0. Today, through the micro irrigation and subsurface irrigation, agricultural production reached a high level of efficiency that assures quality and quantity. “Micro-irrigation”, or drip irrigation, is a method which allows the farmer to give the same amount of water to the roots of each plant, ...
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MARVIN™ technology saves agriculture & horticulture time and money
Four hundred thousand seedlings, nearly half of what a plant grower of, say, young tomato plants, produces in one season; this is the amount that sorting machines with the MARVIN technology can process in a single day. They rapidly make 3D models of the plants and accurately evaluate their size and features in milliseconds. “The information can be automatically recorded in a database and ...
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Agritech Expo comes to Arusha, Tanzania!
The success story of the outdoor agricultural show, Agritech Expo, is about to expand to Tanzania with the inaugural farming B2B platform taking place in the agri-hub of Arusha in January. Says Agritech Expo Tanzania event director Yolanda dos Santos: “continued agriculture economic growth in Tanzania has awoken the need to facilitate an enabling environment where suppliers, farmers of all ...
By VUKA Group
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New Regional Structure Set To Drive AGCO Expansion in Africa
AGCO, Your Agriculture Company (NYSE:AGCO), a worldwide manufacturer and distributor of agricultural equipment and solutions, has announced a realignment of its regional structure which will see an increase in its on-the-ground presence in Africa and a further expansion of the Company’s significant operations on the Continent. Effective 1 January 2017, AGCO will restructure its Asia ...
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We are exhibiting at Rundvee & Mechanisatie November 1-3, 2016
We are exhibiting at Rundvee & Mechanisatie Vakdagen (RMV) from November 1 to 3, 2016 in Hardenberg, the Netherlands. Find us here: Stand 541 on the stand of our dealer SIM Holland BV, www.simholland.nl. The Rundvee & Mechanisatie Vakdagen (RMV), together with their three regional trade fairs, form a strong knowledge and contact platform for the complete cattle farming, agricultural and ...
By JH Agro A/S
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CropLife Asia Supports UN FAO Call for Food & Agriculture to ´Change´ along with Climate to Meet Growing Demands
Plant Science Technology Highlighted as Key "Tool in the Toolbox" for Smallholder Farmers As Asia and the world prepare to mark World Food Day, CropLife Asia expressed its strong support for the 2016 theme put forth by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - 'Climate is changing. Food and agriculture must too.' The impact of climate change is increasingly being felt ...
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Sustainable mechanization has much to offer in sub-Saharan Africa
Feeding the burgeoning world population will require significant improvements in agricultural productivity, above all in Africa, and mechanization and appropriate mechanization strategies have a large role to play, according to a new report from FAO. The opportunity must be guided in a way that meets smallholder farmers' needs and that does not require a Green-Revolution type of approach with ...
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Focus on agri for economic growth as Agribusiness Congress East Africa comes to Kampala in November
There is great excitement in the agricultural sector in Uganda as preparations are underway for the fourth Agribusiness Congress East Africa conference that is taking place in Kampala from 29-30 November. It is the first time that the event is taking place in Uganda. Agribusiness Congress East Africa is a regional platform for discussions and knowledge sharing, to address those pertinent issues ...
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$15 million in USAID funding looks to spark ‘new era’ in agricultural data collection
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and FAO have signed a $15 million agreement aimed at boosting the capacity of developing countries to track key agricultural data -information that is essential to good policymaking and that will help track progress toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The second of the SDG goals is to end hunger, achieve food ...
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Sentera Features Inspection & Agriculture Products at InterDrone 2016
Sentera, LLC, a global provider of software, sensor, and drone technologies to the infrastructure inspection and agriculture industries, will display a range of solutions at its exhibit during the InterDrone Conference and Exposition, which takes place at the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, September 7-9. Sentera’s Co-Founder and Executive Vice President of Business Development, Greg ...
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Sustainable phosphorus use — evaluating past patterns to inform future management
Recycling waste from farming and mining could help improve the sustainable use of phosphorus, a recent study suggests. The study traced the stocks and flows of phosphorus over a 50 year period to reveal changing patterns of global phosphorus use. The results can be used to develop the sustainable management of phosphorus — a finite and critical resource — in the future. Phosphorus is ...
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International trends in technology for agriculture
Attending the International Conference on Precision Agriculture (ICPA) is a great way to keep abreast of developments in PA and some of the people behind them. SPAA sent its editor of Precision Ag News Emma leonard along. Here is what she had to say… This year for the first time the ICPA ran concurrently with InfoAg. While the ICPA provides a window to the latest research on PA, InfoAg ...
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Richard Stewart Joins the T.H. Glennon Team
T.H. Glennon Co., Salisbury, Mass., is pleased to announce that Richard Stewart has joined the company as National Sales Manager. Richard will manage the sales force that represent the company’s line of Colorfast landscape mulch colorants for wood, rubber and aggregate, as well as the Mulch Color Jet equipment. Over the past four years, Richard was active as consultant and product ...
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Review Published of Nanomaterials for Products and Application in Agriculture, Feed, and Food in the European Union
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) requested a review of the already marketed and in-development applications of nanomaterials in the agri/feed/food sectors. The results of the review are published in the August 2016 issue of Trends in Food Science & Technology in an article entitled “Nanomaterials for products and application in agriculture, feed and food.” The article ...
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Assessing crop damages after extreme weather
Original story at MIT News Producing torrential rain and wind gusts exceeding 180 miles per hour as it made landfall in the Philippines, Typhoon Haiyan left more than 6,000 dead and 4 million homeless. The November 2013 storm also obliterated thousands of hectares of crops, mostly rice, the staple food for about 90 percent of the population. Host to six to nine tropical cyclones per year since ...
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FAO’s State of the World’s Forests Calls for Positive Interactions Between Agriculture and Forestry
It is not necessary to cut down forests to produce more food. Promoting more positive interactions between agriculture and forestry can stop deforestation, build sustainable agricultural systems and improve food security. This is the key message of 'The State of the World's Forests' (SOFO), the flagship publication of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO), presented at the opening ...
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Dairy Farmers of Canada’s AGM closes with a continued commitment to strengthen the dairy industry for the next generation
Prince Edward Island hosted dairy farmer delegates from across the country at the Dairy Farmers of Canada’s (DFC) annual general meeting on July 12th and 13th. Farmers participated in a series of dairy industry discussions and conference sessions, and reinforced their commitment to strengthen and grow Canada’s dairy industry for the next generation of dairy farmers and Canadians. ...
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Fruit fly outbreak cost growers $4.1 million; could have been much worse
University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences economists estimate the Oriental fruit fly outbreak last year caused at least $4.1 million in direct crop damages in Miami-Dade County, but the damage could have been far worse, UF/IFAS researchers say. In the new report, UF/IFAS researchers and the chief economist for the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, ...
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