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Terra Agri, Terra Drone Indonesia Agriculture Service Supports Polytechnic Banjarmasin`s Career And Research Development
Key Points: The partnership offers students valuable insights and hands-on experience in drone technology, with potential job placements at Terra Agri. Enriches students and alums with practical experience and engages local communities in Kalimantan, aligning with Terra Agri's commitment to regional development. Emphasizes the importance of integrating academia and industry for agricultural ...
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Highly convincing in handling, cleaning and feed dosing
(DLG). After having successfully passed a test in practice, the DLG Test Center Technology and Farm Inputs (Deutsche Landwirtschafts-Gesellschaft – German Agricultural Society) recently awarded the PAL-VITAL feeding bowl for broilers of the German manufacturer PAL Bullermann with the test label “DLG FokusTest”. Already during design and development of the feeding bowl, the ...
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EAVISION Turkey Application, Agriculture Spray Drone Support to Farmers in Diyarbakir
6 thousand decares of wheat field in Diyarbakir Yenisehir District Sivritepe Neighborhood was sprayed with a drone in cooperation with the Municipality and the District Directorate of Agriculture and Forestry. Diyarbakir Yenisehir District Governor and Mayor Murat Besikci, Yenisehir District Agriculture and Forestry Director Abbas Ates, Yenisehir Chamber of Agriculture President Süleyman ...
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Main digital technologies in precision farming
We briefly covered some of the different forms of technologies that are used in precision farming. FIELD MONITORING Crop Health Monitoring (mostly based on NDVI) — Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) is a method that is used to determine the health of crops through the analysis of drone and satellite imagery. It looks at various wavelengths of light, both visible and ...
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Avirtech awarded GTI from Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation and Iskandar Investment Berhad
Avirtech, a precision AgriTech leader in Southeast Asia, has been awarded Global Testbed Incentives (GTI) from Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC), administered by Iskandar Investment Berhad (IIB). Avirtech is the first receiving company and is recognized for its capabilities for positive impact on Malaysia agriculture. GTI is a pilot project covering a subsidy scheme to encourage ...
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Biotalys’ First Biocontrol Evoca Wins World BioProtection Award 2022 for Best Biofungicide Product
Biotalys (Euronext - BTLS), an Agricultural Technology (AgTech) company protecting crops and food with protein-based biocontrol solutions, today announced that its biocontrol Evoca™* won the World BioProtection Award 2022 for Best Biofungicide Product. The award was granted at the World BioProtection Summit taking place in Birmingham (UK) this week, based on the innovative character, ...
By Biotalys NV
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Feeding the growing world population
According to the estimates of the United Nations, in 2050 the world population will be over 10 billion. This will lead to approximately 50 percent increase in food need compared to 2013. In order to meet this demand, agricultural production needs to increase. Feeding the growing world population To feed the growing world population, it is necessary to increase the yield from the unit ...
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Technology in Farming – From Drones Herding Sheep to UV-Stabilised Storage Tanks
As technology takes more of a hold over farming with the on-going rise of precision farming, it probably won’t come as such a surprise to hear that drones are now making their way into agriculture, namely sheep farming. Farmers Weekly showcases a Carlow-based sheep farmer, Paul Brennan who uses a remote controlled quad-copter drone to herd around 100 sheep from one pasture to another. The ...
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Weradiate Llc Named Among the Top Winners at 2021 Grow-Ny, An Unprecedented Global Food And Agriculture Business Competition
Empire State Development and Cornell University’s Center for Regional Economic Advancement have named WeRadiate LLC the $250,000 winner of Grow-NY, a food innovation and agriculture technology business competition focused on enhancing the emerging agriculture innovation cluster in Central New York, the Finger Lakes, and the Southern Tier. Marking its third year, the unprecedented ...
By WeRadiate
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Cropin in Association with Hsbc and Thinkag Conducted A Webinar on Digitizing Crop Insurance
CropIn, in association with ThinkAg and HSBC, conducted a webinar on “Digitizing Crop Insurance” as a part of the AgFin Tech Series, Digitizing Agri-Finance & Insurance. The primary focus of the series is to advance the importance of technology in the agriculture space. CropIn’s tagline “Re-imagining Agriculture With Data”, outlines how technological innovation ...
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Topcon acquires Digi-Star, a global leader in precision agriculture
Topcon Positioning Group announces the acquisition of Digi-Star, a global leader in agricultural solutions involving weight sensors and control systems for feeding, planting, fertilizer, and harvest equipment manufacturers. “After several years of working on development projects together, we are delighted with this acquisition. Digi-Star and Topcon Precision Agriculture are a perfect fit, ...
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Decisive Farming by TELUS Agriculture and GrainFox launch strategic partnership, supporting digital transformation for farmers
Decisive Farming by TELUS Agriculture, an innovative technology and data solutions provider, and GrainFox announced a new partnership to bring more digital grain trade and sell options to Canadian farmers, providing technology-based solutions to support the ongoing transformation of Canada’s agriculture industry. Between crop contracts, ever-changing market conditions, and the advice ...
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The benefits of agriculture drone
While drones have been used in private industries for decades, their commercial applications continue to expand as quickly as innovators can come up with new ideas. As drones become more prevalent in our society, much of this growth is attributed not only to declining costs of technology but also to the adjustment of government restrictions on drone use. The agriculture industry, which continues ...
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Brazil Soybean Production and Weather
Over the past 20 years, Brazil has emerged in the global agriculture industry as both a major producer and exporter of agricultural products. Agricultural production in Brazil has exploded over this time and its impact on global markets has been significant. As shown below, Brazil has become the number two producer of soybeans by 2017, according to the UN FAO. Brazil is in the southern hemisphere ...
By CropProphet
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New Study Highlights Need to Broaden Environmental Monitoring at Fish Farms
As humans we don’t often think about how much oxygen is contained in the air because there is always more than enough for us to breathe. Underwater things are a little different. Oxygen concentrations are constantly changing due to changes in temperature, salinity, wind and currents. Fish take up oxygen over their gills and have minimum oxygen requirements that must be met for them to ...
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Bayer collaborates with Microsoft to unveil new cloud-based enterprise solutions, advancing innovation and transparency in the agri-food industry
Ready-to-use AgPowered Services from Bayer running on the new Microsoft Azure Data Manager for Agriculture Readymade capabilities and robust digital infrastructure allow innovators to focus on differentiated value Companies, farmers and consumers share value through better connected solutions and increased supply chain transparency that support sustainable agriculture and food production ...
By Bayer AG
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Drones Hold Great Promise for Agriculture
Small unmanned aircraft systems, better known as drones, hold great promise for agriculture, Kansas State University agronomist Kevin Price told farmers at the American Farm Bureau Federation’s 95th Annual Convention. Agriculture applications for drones in development include data collection on crop health, vigor and yields, tracking the spread of invasive plant species and monitoring ...
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What is the difference between precision, digital and smart farming?
Modernization of agriculture and the use of digital technology have caused new concepts to emerge such as precision farming, digital farming, and smart farming. These terms, despite often used interchangeably, have a subtle difference in meaning. Precision farming or precision agriculture? The European Parliament’s report on Precision agriculture and the future of farming in Europe ...
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The Flying Farmhand
A metal box about the size of a washing machine sits on the ground at a vineyard, when suddenly its top panel splits open and slides sideways. Riding a lift inside the box, a large quadcopter slowly emerges. Within moments, the drone is flying a grid pattern over the grapes, snapping hundreds of photographs with a multispectral camera. When the mission is completed the quadcopter returns to its ...
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The Cloud and the Changing Face of Agriculture
Enterprises, non-profits, and startups around the world are using the cloud to accelerate innovations that are changing the face of agriculture. In support of The Ohio State University’s Discovery Themes initiative, and in tandem with the 2016 Farm Science Review, Amazon Web Services and experts from around the country will demonstrate how massive public data sets of satellite photos and ...
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