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BASF presents xarvio™ Digital Farming Solutions
Agriculture is facing major challenges worldwide: In some regions, demand for food and feed is growing rapidly, while in others conditions for production are not satisfactory. In Germany and other European countries, sustainability and transparency are in the public focus. In response to these challenges, xarvio&t...Read more
Singapore engineers invents smartphone device that detects harmful algae
This invention can generate test results on-site, and findings can be reported in real-time using the smartphone’s wireless communications capabilities. This technological breakthrough could play a big role in preventing the spread of harmful microorganisms in aquatic environments, which could threate...Read more
ICAR launches online Journal of Sugarcane Research
Dr. Singh stated that such initiative is the need of the hour as it helps in increasing the number of readers and therefore, the citations. He also underlined that the citations of papers published in the Indian Journal of Animal Sciences and Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences has considerably increas...Read more
INCOIS launches satellite-based advisory service for deep sea fishermen
The new service was launched by Dr Harsh Vardhan, the minister for science and technology and earth sciences At present, fishermen get advisories, forecasts and early warnings through a wide range of dissemination mechanisms such as Potential Fishing Zones (PFZ) advisories, ocean state forecasts, high wave alerts...Read more
Rubber Board launches app for collection of Natural Rubber prices
The Rubber Board launched a new mobile application ‘Rubber Trade Info’ to collect natural rubber (NR) price daily. The aim of the Rubber Board is to upgrade the present price collection system and to increase the data source. The strengthening of data source will increase the precision of price...Read more
ISRO develops mobile app to collect field level data of wetlands
In order to protect coastal wetlands in the wake of climate crisis, a mobile app has been developed to collect the complete datasets on smaller wetlands across the coastal region of the country. The app was developed by the Space Applications Centre (SAC) of the ISRO upon the request of the Central Marine Fisherie...Read more
Glencore joins Initiative to modernize global agriculture commodity trade
The industry-wide initiative to modernize global agricultural commodity trade operations announced that another major partner, Glencore Agriculture Limited, has joined the effort. “We’ve been interested in the initiative from the very early days and we’re excited now to join as a full partner,&r...Read more
Glencore Agriculture joins global agricultural commodity trade operations
The industry-wide initiative to modernize global agricultural commodity trade operations announced today that another major partner, Glencore Agriculture Limited, has joined the effort. David Mattiske, CEO, Glencore Agriculture Limited said, "We've been interested in the initiative from the very early days and we...Read more
Ag Leaders connectivity simplifies unloading on-the-go for grain cart operators
Ag Leader, the leader in year-round precision farming technology widely known for the first commercially successful yield monitor has announced a limited beta release of a new grain cart connectivity feature, CartACE. Powered by Ag Leader's InCommand display, CartACE gives the grain cart operator assistance w...Read more