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The company's solutions aid palm oil-focused farmers and plantation companies to minimize crop failures, resulting in a 30% reduction in operating costs. Executing up to 4,000 flights daily, Avirtech has contributed to the scientific cultivation of more than 200,000 hectares of land in Indonesia and Malaysia. ...
Avirtech is a precision AgriTech leader in Southeast Asia, and Astrocast, a leading global nanosatellite IoT network operator, collaborates to advance Satellite IoT connectivity (SatIoT) for Avirlink BIOTA. BIOTA is a remote sensing and crop monitoring product that offers insights into plantation health. Using advanced sensor and analysis tools, BIOTA helps reduce ...
To help farmers detect pests at an early stage and protect critical agriculture, Bayer AG’s Crop Protection Innovation Lab has developed the MagicTrap — a yellow trap that catches and counts potential pests in canola fields automatically and provides data for developing an efficient and sustainable crop protection system. ...
The palm oil industry is one example that often suffers from crop failure because of pests, resulting in 25% of plants dying, and will delay up the harvest period to 1 year. ...
I am certain with discussions like these, the crop insurance segment will see a significant leap in the near future and will benefit farmers. ...
“Plant tissue culture has already solved the propagation challenge for hundreds of other crops ranging from strawberries to ferns. By adopting tissue culture these crops significantly reduced pathogen risks and crop failure, while at the same time increasing yield and biochemical expression. ...
This strategy can reduce the risk of crop failure and help to prevent contamination of food and feed with mycotoxins. ...
___ Saltwater for a farmer long meant certain crop failure. Wartime foes sowed enemy fields with salt to ensure social collapse. ...
A warming climate might result in better crop yields in one region, but cause drought and crop failure in another. ...
Two new varieties of hybrid maize that are resistant to the deadly parasitic Striga weed have been developed by a Kenyan scientist. The weed affects cereal crops in many parts of Africa and is a major cause of crop failure in East Africa, where climate change has been driving its spread in recent years. ...
Some of the farmers who lost their crops in the Horn of Africa drought this year may be able to afford farming next season, with the help of a 'micro-insurance' scheme. ...
Speaking at a meeting with researchers at Makerere University in Uganda last month (4 July), Grady reported: "In May, through our grantees, more than a dozen varieties of four crop species — cassava, peanut, cowpea and sorghum — were released, most of them coming from Uganda, and the result of original breeding that made use of local germplasm plus specific traits ...
Crop water use efficiency (WUE), or yield per unit of water used, can be improved through irrigation management and methods, including deficit irrigation (irrigating less than is required for maximum yields) and supplemental irrigation (irrigating to supplement precipitation so as to avoid crop failure or severe yield decline). ...
Large-scale farmers there manage to grow about half of the impoverished nation's food production with the help of motorized irrigation pumps, but for individual subsistence farmers and their families--about two-thirds of the nation's 40 million people--growing crops mostly means hauling water by hand in buckets. That's a method that's inefficient and unreliable, often leading to ...