Precision Farming Dealer’s Best of the Web: May 31
Precision Farming Dealer editors encounter a variety of articles, social media posts, podcasts and videos that offer a unique look at various aspects of our great agricultural industry. Here is our favorite content from the past week: How Digital Enablement Solutions Can Boost Sales Pat Sullivan from AgVend discusses how his company’s digital enablement solutions […]
Future of farming: UGA creating data-driven system that could redefine farming
Chris Starrs | Contributor A $4 million dollar federal grant awarded to Georgia’s College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences could go a long way in providing the template for the farm of the future. UGA, in partnership with Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, Clemson and Kansas State, received the grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s […]
Tobacco farming threatens food security
Experts on tobacco control and public health have said that public health, environmental protection, development and food security are the major concern in Bangladesh. Tobacco threatens every aspect of public health, environment, development and food security. Effective steps should be taken immediately to finalize the ‘Tobacco Cultivation Control Policy; to stop tobacco cultivation, they added, […]
New generation of farmers lead the way in making farming more productive and profitable
In the Indo-Gangetic Plains of northern India, nearly 70% of the population is involved in agriculture and extension services. Despite the abundantly fertile soil and farmers’ resilience, the adoption of agricultural innovations and productivity in the region has been slow. This slow progress is often attributed to comparatively low levels of agricultural mechanization in the […]
Odd climate hits Aus farming
The decline in rice output in the Aus season has continued for the last two consecutive fiscal years and experts have attributed this fall to the changing climatic conditions of the country. Production of the rice dropped further to 2.90 million tonnes in the outgoing fiscal year of 2022-23 (FY ’23) from 3.00 million tonnes […]
Contract farming takes over poultry industry
Big companies allegedly control prices, force marginal poultry farmers to comply with their conditions In the last week of March, marginal poultry farmer Delowar Hossain bought nearly 4,000 one-day-old Sonali chicks from a large poultry company. After rearing them for 40 days, when he tried selling them, he found it shockingly difficult to recover his […]
Lagos distributes inputs to fisher folks, farming clusters | The Guardian Nigeria News – Nigeria and World News
The Lagos State Government has flagged off the distribution of agric inputs and production assets to fishing and farming clusters and communities in the state. During the flag off ceremony, held at the Ikorodu Local Council Secretariat, Ikorodu, the Commissioner for Agriculture, Abisola Olusanya, said the attainment of food security is a major policy thrust […]
Bangladesh’s cooking oil industry is dependent on imports. Now sunflower farming in saline soil provides a burst of sunshine
Ashim Shikari from Patuakhali saw no one cultivate a piece of fallow land for 20 years, except for paddy only during the Aman season. Last year, the local agriculture officer made him cultivate sunflowers on 0.13 hectares of the land. “We had a bumper harvest. We never thought we could farm three different crops on […]
Sweet potato farming makes farmers happy in Jamalpur
Sweet potato cultivation in the district has made farmers profitable this year. According to Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) office sources farmers got 25,670 tonnes of sweet potato this year from 1,055 hectares of land. This year farmers brought 55 hectares more land under sweet potato cultivation against the target. Farmers got 14,325 tonnes sweet […]
Syngenta and FMC Revolutionize Rice Farming in Asia with Groundbreaking Grass Weed Control Technology
Syngenta and FMC Revolutionize Rice Farming in Asia with Groundbreaking Grass Weed Control Technology This cutting-edge solution introduces Tetflupyrolimet, an innovative active ingredient discovered and pioneered by FMC with invaluable support from Syngenta during its development specifically for rice cultivation. Notably, […]