KOCHI: Friday morning saw Kochi waking up to a huge crowd gathering around a coconut tree in front of the Coconut Development Board’s office on SRVHS Road. Every head in the crowd was turned... Read more
Organic farming is known to be environmentally sustainable, but can it be economically sustainable, as well? The answer is yes, according to new research in the Sept.-Oct. issue of Agronomy... Read more
When the Kinze autonomy system arrives, it will be aimed at solving one of farming’s most persistent problems: the scarcity of good help. Her father’s patented inventions made Ki... Read more
Get ready for feed-the-world by numbers. You’ve heard of paint by numbers? Get ready for feed-the-world by numbers. Dutch agricultural company PlantLab wants to change almost everything you... Read more
Many hybrid cars feature regenerative braking – they harness the energy generated when they brake, and store it in the battery for later use. This helps maximize the amount of time tha... Read more
Farmers using a cover crop seeder developed by Penn State agricultural scientists may eventually need only a single trip across the field to accomplish what takes most farmers three passes a... Read more
Because of soil depletion, crops grown decades ago were much richer in vitamins and minerals than the varieties most of us get today. It would be overkill to say that the carrot you eat toda... Read more
Two techniques show promise for helping farmers conserve scarce water in Punjab, India’s breadbasket. India is running out of water for crops. Most of the water-intensive agriculture i... Read more
Image via Wikipedia A new study attempts to estimate the effects of climate change on global agriculture–and outline ways to mitigate its most dire consequences The people of East Afri... Read more
IF climate change and population growth progress at their current pace, in roughly 50 years farming as we know it will no longer exist. Read more
Image via Wikipedia THE GLOBAL DIGITAL SOIL MAP WILL GENERATE DATA CRUCIAL FOR COMBATING HUNGER, POVERTY, AND CLIMATE CHANGE. Soil is a critical component of our planet’s ecosystems—it provi... Read more