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Super hanging basket liners
As budding gardeners welcome the arrival of spring and start preparing their hanging baskets and planters, a new innovative water-retaining liner fabric will help make nurturing and caring for plants a lot less time consuming and reduce overall water usage. The Super Absorbent Fibre (SAF) technology of UK based manufacturer Technical Absorbents Ltd (TAL), is a unique fibrous technology and which ...
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Super absorbent technology for horticulture on display in Essen
In January, UK-based Super Absorbent Fibre (SAF) manufacturer Technical Absorbents (TAL) will join over 1500 exhibitors at international trade fair for plants (IPM Essen) as it displays an array of innovative fibre and fabric technologies from its Agrotas product range that aid efficient water management. IPM Essen is the world’s leading trade fair for horticulture. It is the only ...
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TAL to promote technology at GFIA in Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi will welcome many visitors from the world of Agriculture next week as it hosts the Global Forum for Innovations in Agriculture (GFIA) conference and exhibition at ADNEC. The event will commence on Monday 9th March for three days, and Technical Absorbents will join many companies promoting their latest innovations to the market. Technical Absorbents unique SAF technology creates new ...
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Droughts may shrink wine cork industry
Climate change is threatening cork production in the forests of Spain and Portugal, making it more difficult to produce traditional wine bottle stoppers and putting an ancient and valuable industry at risk. A recent study by Portuguese researchers shows that cork − the thick bark of an oak tree species found mostly in the Iberian Peninsula − grows at a much slower rate during ...
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All About Innovation: Brown University Trial Shows Potential of Plasma-Treated Water to Aid Plant Growth
That’s the year when the world population reaches the count of 9 billion, a sobering contrast to 2.5 billion inhabitants in 1950, and 7.5 billion today. It’s also the year when global food production, according to the World Bank, must rise by 50% to feed this unprecedented mass of humanity. Only a dramatic uptick in innovative technological activity throughout the agricultural ...
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CSIRO aiming to lead the world in agricultural modelling
The joint venture has been formed to further develop the Agricultural Production Systems Simulator (APSIM) – a computer simulation model which takes into account many of the factors affecting a farm’s success, including different plant, soil and management approaches, to inform on-farm management decisions. APSIM has a broad range of applications including: farming systems design, assessment of ...
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