Precision Farming Dealer’s Best of the Web: May 31

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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

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

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

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

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

Jashore farmers all set to ship cabbage to Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan

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 […]

Sweet potato farming makes farmers happy in Jamalpur

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 […]