agriculture innovation News
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Grain Cloud is nominated for the Elmia Agricultural Innovation Award 2018
Our new app Grain Cloud has been nominated for the Elmia Innovation Award 2018. Read more about the Elmia Innovation Award here. Grain Cloud is an app that quickly and easily gives you an overview of all processes and units in the facility. It makes the harvest season more efficient and less stressful because it keeps track of and calculates drying and conveying times, while at the same ...
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Preview of Tip Biosystems joined the Thailand LAB INTERNATIONAL 2017
Tip Biosystems participated in the Thailand Lab international 2017 for the second year. We sincerely thank you so much for visiting our booth held at BITEC from September 6th to 8th. We appreciate your time with us at the exhibition. We are delighted to have such a lot of interests and inquiries for our latest products and technologies with the visitors from all different trade industries from ...
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Plastic-Puglia exhibit at Agritechnica 2017
Plastic-Puglia will participate to AGRITECHNICA HANNOVER 2017 exhibition, that will take place in the Expo grounds of Hanover, in Germany. Innovations in agricultural equipment and the latest solutions and concepts for the future of plant production will presented this year at AGRITECHNICA in Hannover. Plastic-Puglia will be waiting for visitors at HALL 21, BOOTH ...
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Plastic-Puglia exhibit at Agritechnica 2017
Plastic-Puglia will participate to AGRITECHNICA HANNOVER 2017 exhibition, that will take place in the Expo grounds of Hanover, in Germany. Innovations in agricultural equipment and the latest solutions and concepts for the future of plant production will presented this year at AGRITECHNICA in Hannover. Plastic-Puglia will be waiting for visitors at HALL 21, BOOTH ...
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Agri-Tech Week – Precision Inputs of Fertiliser and Water Explored
With British farming contributing £103 billion to the UK economy each year and providing over 3.8 million jobs, pioneering agricultural innovation organisation, Agri-Tech East hosts Agri-Tech Week this week which looks at ways in which the UK can reap rich harvest from agricultural innovation. The week began at Rothamsted Research with an introduction to the new AgriMetrics Centre, which ...
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Agribusiness Awards
Celtic Sea Minerals are delighted to announce that we've been shortlisted as finalists in the 2016 Agribusiness Awards. Celtic Sea Minerals have been shortlisted in the 'Innovation in Agriculture' category and are delighted to be recognised by the highly competitive and innovative Agri-business industry that we have in Ireland. This will be a hotly contested category with 7 other great Irish ...
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World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit Conference in London
Further to the Barcelona Conference, Mark will be attending the World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit Conference in London in October for two days of networking and debate. At this event, global agribusinesses, investors and technology start-ups from around the world come together to uncover the most exciting innovations in agricultural technology – and to forge the right partnerships to take ...
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Chile, India link up for rural development
Chile and India will work together to promote agricultural innovation and explore the potential of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in improving rural livelihoods. The MS Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) signed an agreement on agricultural cooperation with Chile's Foundation for Agricultural Innovation (FIA) in Chennai last month (20 March). MSSRF chairman M. S. ...
By SciDev.Net
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China`s agricultural patents on the rise
[BEIJING] Patent applications for agricultural innovations, particularly for genetically modified (GM) crops, have surged in China in the past decade, according to intellectual property experts. Statistics from the China Center for Intellectual Property in Agriculture (CCIPA) show that applications doubled between 2002 and 2008, from 4,500 to 9,300. The rise is against a backdrop of even ...
By SciDev.Net
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Showcase
AlfaTech (SG) Becomes Integration and Service Partner of Urban Crop Solutions for South East Asia
AlfaTech will become the integration and service partner for the products of Urban Crop Solutions (UCS) in the South East Asian region. After an already first successful joint project for the National University of Singapore, both technology companies will now work together for indoor vertical farming projects. Urban Crop Solutions has since 2014, been active in the engineering, procurement, ...
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EPA, USDA, and ARC Announce Winners of 2014 “Livable Communities” Competition
The Appalachian communities of Berea, Kentucky; Forest City, North Carolina; New Albany, Mississippi; and North Wilkesboro, North Carolina have been selected by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC), and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to receive technical assistance and implementation support through the Livable Communities in ...
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Innovations in agriculture can help Hawaii farmers thrive
As we come together this month to celebrate the importance of agriculture on National Ag Day, March 20, it is important to take stock of Hawaii’s vital contributions to the way we grow, sell and consume food, and where the industry will take us next. Read ...
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Angola, Brazil and FAO sign South-South Cooperation agreement
Angola, Brazil and FAO are to work closely together to strengthen food security in the Southern African country by boosting its agricultural and veterinary research. Under a new South-South Cooperation agreement, Angolan researchers will receive technical assistance and short-term training from the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA), which played a key role in Brazil’s ...
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Patents fail to boost crop yields
Policies that secure intellectual property rights (IPRs) for agricultural innovations often fail to encourage technology transfer to developing countries or increase crop yields, a study shows. “Intellectual property rights are not all they are cracked up to be,” says David Spielman, a co-author of the study and researcher at the International Food Policy Research Institute, based in ...
By SciDev.Net
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Give young people the tools to solve hunger, says expert
Young people are the key to innovations that could help feed billions of people in the decades ahead, according to Calestous Juma, an internationally recognised development expert. "Today's youth have access to new types of knowledge that were not available to their parents, such as genomic and geospatial data. The challenge is searching for this knowledge, adapting it to local conditions and ...
By SciDev.Net
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BIO Supports Growing Climate Solutions Act
The Biotechnology Innovation Organization issued the following statement on today’s hearing on the Growing Climate Solutions Act: “The importance of today’s discussion cannot be understated. Climate change is a threat to agriculture and society. However, innovative, biology-based tools will enable agriculture to adapt and be part of the solution. BIO is a strong supporter of ...
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ILDEX Vietnam
ILDEX Vietnam is organized by VNU Exhibitions Asia Pacific Co., Ltd. a joint venture between Jaarbeurs from the Netherlands and TCC Exhibition and Convention Center from Thailand. VNU Exhibitions Asia Pacific develops, with industry partners and exhibition organizers from around the world, executes and internationalizes trade show and conferences from animal production and processing to ...
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Ag Leader Responds to AgJunction Claim of Patent Infringement
Ag Leader, a long-time innovator in precision agriculture dedicated to making farmers’ lives better, recently terminated its supply agreement with AgJunction. On Monday, November 16, 2020, AgJunction responded by filing a patent infringement and breach of contract lawsuit in the District of Arizona. These allegations relate to Ag Leader’s development of its new SteerCommand Z2 and ...
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Nominations Open for 2015 4R Advocate Awards Program
The Fertilizer Institute (TFI) today launched the 2015 4R Advocate Awards Program with a call for entries from retailers wishing to highlight the exceptional nutrient stewardship practices of their grower customers. The 4R Advocate Award program, now in its fourth year, recognizes farmers who are protecting the environment, boosting profitability and benefiting society through nutrient ...
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Agricultural biotechnology `should be open source`
Open source biotechnology, through which biotechnology inventions are made freely available for others to use and improve upon, could help developing countries overcome hurdles created by stringent intellectual property rights (IPRs), a study says. The concept is based on open source in software development. To date, open source software's free accessibility, low cost, openness to modification ...
By SciDev.Net
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