Dec 2, 2021 | Agriculture, Climate, Featured
Few things are more scenic than a wild blueberry barren full of plump and ripe berries. But Maine’s iconic berry crop is facing a climate crisis that threatens its future. Scientists earlier this year reported that the Down East region — home to the...
Nov 4, 2021 | Agriculture, Internet of Things
AT&T is using its 5G network to power a unique type of connected device designed specifically for dairy farmers. The hardware comes from smaXtec, which describes it as a small smart sensor that cows physically swallow. The sensor stays in the cow’s first stomach...
Nov 4, 2021 | Agriculture, Robots
Plants may have no muscles, but they can grow upwards against the strain of gravity and their roots can even shift soil and rocks – because their cells can absorb water to form strong structures. Now an artificial material which mimics this ability could help to...
Sep 16, 2021 | Agriculture, Drones
Imagine medicines and Covid vaccines being delivered to the remotest corners of the country via drones, within minutes from the nearest health care centre. That is soon going to be a norm in India. Not just that. A farmer growing tomatoes in the Malwa region in MP can...
Aug 12, 2021 | Agriculture, Artificial Intelligence, Robots
Artificial intelligence and automation are the new farmhands as growers try to boost productivity amid soaring global demand for food, biofuels and other agricultural products. Why it matters: Farmers one day will be able to manage their fields from their kitchen...
Jul 22, 2021 | Agriculture, Artificial Intelligence, Featured
Scientists from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mandi have developed a computational model for automated disease detection in potato crops using photographs of the leaves. The research led by Srikant Srinivasan, associate professor, School of Computing and...
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