Agriculture

Whether you want to start growing your own food, join a community garden or find locally owned and grown food, an Ypsilanti-based nonprofit wants to help. The nonprofit Growing Hope recently launched an interactive map of community gardens, farms, locally owned grocery stores, food pantries and places to borrow or get free seeds, tools and other growing ...

In many Asian regions, especially in China, agricultural fields are typically small, scattered, and lack clear boundaries, which complicates effective crop distribution and agricultural analysis using remote sensing technology. Now, a research group from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has addressed this challenge with a novel dual-branch deep learning model ...

As the world’s largest rice exporter and a crucial player in global food security, India has made impressive strides in agricultural productivity since the Green Revolution. However, a significant gap remains between the rice yields that farmers currently achieve and what they could potentially produce. A recent study published in Nature Communications titled “Context-dependent agricultural ...

Remote sensing plays a vital role in monitoring agricultural landscapes, yet current satellite sensors often struggle with the trade-off between spatial and temporal resolution. High spatial resolution images, while detailed, are often limited by infrequent captures and cloud interference, reducing their utility in rapidly changing environments. Conversely, images with better temporal resolution lack the necessary ...

Rada, a Tanzanian space tech innovator, and SatNav Africa JPO, a leading advocate for satellite navigation in Africa, have joined forces to revolutionize African agriculture through Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). SatNav Africa JPO’s expertise in GNSS and Satellite-Based Augmentation System (SBAS) services, utilizing advanced European solutions like EGNOS and Galileo, will significantly enhance the ...

Qatar University (QU) is directing research into improving the sustainability of food and water security in arid regions. Dr Ammar Abulibdeh, an associate professor of geography and GIS (geographic information system) at the QU’s College of Arts and Sciences, leads the research team focused on developing a comprehensive model to interconnect food, water, and ecosystems ...

Turkmenistan is currently in the process of establishing a comprehensive land administration system, which includes both a cadastre and a land registration system. Since 1990, the official land statistics of Turkmenistan have shown minimal individualization. This is largely due to the fact that former collective farms still list land now held in family leaseholds as ...

As you sip a cup of tea, particularly tea from east China’s Fujian Province, two remote sensing satellites in orbit are monitoring the tea planting and maintenance. The two satellites, both launched in 2022, can obtain the images with a resolution higher than 0.5 meters and a width of 15 km. They serve the tea-producing ...

Researchers at the University of Bonn have developed software that can simulate the growth of field crops. To do this, they fed thousands of photos from field experiments into a learning algorithm. This enabled the algorithm to learn how to visualize the future development of cultivated plants based on a single initial image. Using the ...

A multi-institutional study led by University of Illinois and Agroecosystem Sustainability Center (ASC) scientists concluded that, although soil moisture varies significantly both within a single field and from field to field due to varying soil properties and different management practices, soil moisture distribution relative to the field average remains consistent across time within each field. ...

Farmland is often a battleground in the fight against climate change. Solar panels and energy crops are pitted against food production, while well-intended policy choices can create incentives for farmers to till up new lands, releasing even more heat-trapping gas into the atmosphere. That’s why strategies for sustainable plant-based fuels focus on marginal lands — ...

Un equipo de especialistas del grupo de Recursos Naturales de la Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Corrientes del INTA junto con la Subsecretaría de Sistemas y Tecnologías de la Información de la Provincia de Corrientes, desarrolló una plataforma web que permite conocer la superficie ganadera útil con el fin de calcular y establecer de manera más eficiente ...

A project at the UK’s Aston University has received financial support for its work on enhancing lidar for crop monitoring applications. The award of a Royal Society Industry Fellowship grant worth £174,000 will be used to further develop a polarimetic lidar, funding work underway at the Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies (AIPT) in the lab ...

Climate change stands as one of the most pressing challenges confronting global ecosystems and human livelihoods. The agriculture sector of Anuradhapura district, Sri Lanka, well renowned for its pivotal role in the nation’s food production, faces an increasing threat from the changing climate. A recent study by Millennium City aims to incorporate the indicator system ...

When scientists look at the Earth’s available water for ecosystem services, they don’t just look at precipitation. They must also account for water moving from the ground to the atmosphere, a process known as evapotranspiration (ET). ET includes evaporation from soil and open water pools such as lakes, rivers, and ponds, as well as transpiration ...

Bangladesh is preparing to introduce remote sensing and drones to detect crop damage caused by extreme weather events or diseases. Around 20 officers of the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) are initially receiving training to learn how to use the state-of-the-art technologies. Malay Choudhury, additional secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, and Edimon Ginting, ADB Country Director ...

Organic agriculture may be as old as dirt, but that doesn’t mean its impacts are fully understood. A team of scientists in the United States and Canada are doing their part to change that. Researchers at UC Santa Barbara, University of British Columbia, and University of Colorado Boulder discovered that organic farming significantly affects the ...

Researchers from Unmanned Valley, Greenport DB, and NL Space Campus in the Netherlands have successfully developed an AI model that enables drones to identify the disease botrytis. The model leverages artificial intelligence to analyze vast amounts of drone data, resulting in a detailed map that pinpoints, with millimeter precision, which plants are diseased or at ...

Una experiencia piloto en el Campus de Rabanales será la base del proyecto GEDIER, que busca crear un sistema de apoyo a la toma de decisiones para una gestión más eficiente de los recursos Avanzar hacia un uso plenamente eficiente de los recursos es el reto más ambicioso al que se enfrenta la agricultura, tanto ...

A new online tool allows users to examine agricultural land use across the country. Developed by ALCES for the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute, the Agriculture Web Mapping Application Tool offers maps and datasets about land use, management practices and agri-environmental indicators. Census, crop production and land use data can be viewed individually or overlaid. Tyler ...

For many Hawaiian farmers, agriculture is more than a profession; it is their kuleana, or responsibility. It is a practice with deep cultural roots tied to the ancient concept of aloha ʻāina—love and responsible stewardship of the land. Despite this cultural connection to farming, agricultural production and food systems across Hawai’i have suffered from decades ...

Présomption forte de lien entre exposition aux pesticides et six pathologies, dont plusieurs cancers et la maladie de Parkinson. C’est ce que confirme le rapport de l’Inserm (Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale) de 2021, en s’appuyant sur plusieurs études épidémiologiques récentes. Et cette conclusion concerne autant les professionnels du monde ...

Crop-livestock integration (CLI) systems combine the growing of crops in rotation or consortium, especially grain crops such as soybeans, corn and sorghum, and forage plants used to feed cattle and pigs, with the raising of livestock, typically beef cattle. The crops provide most of the cash income, while the livestock has food available during the ...

Dog attacks on sheep in Kerry in 2024 are to be mapped by Kerry County Council in an effort to identify the dogs and their owners. The Department of Agriculture is also being asked to employ its satellite tracking system in conjunction with the council maps, to help identify the out-of-control dogs. The move is ...

Sustainable water management is an increasing concern in arid regions around the world, and scientists and regulators are turning to remote sensing tools like OpenET to help track and manage water resources. OpenET uses publicly available data produced by NASA and USGS Landsat and other satellite systems to calculate evapotranspiration (ET), or the amount of ...

Un estudio realizado por investigadores del grupo Materiales Avanzados para la Producción y Almacenamiento de Energía de la Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (UPCT) muestran que se pueden evitar hasta 1377 toneladas/año de fertilizantes nitratos y se puede reducir el uso de agua hasta 27 Hm3/año, dependiendo del escenario seleccionado integrando módulos solares con tecnología fotovoltaica ...

For a study published in the Journal of Remote Sensing, a team of scientists led by Xihan Mu from Beijing Normal University has made a leap forward in environmental monitoring and ecological research. They have created seamless maps of Fractional Vegetation Cover (FVC) over China at 30-meter resolution and semimonthly intervals, covering the years 2010-2020. ...

New Delhi, Jan 15 (UNI) India Meteorological Department (IMD) on the 150th year of its establishment, on Monday launched the weather forecast portal ‘Panchayat Mausam Seva for farmers’ to support farmers with timely weather alerts and warnings for planning agricultural activities accordingly. “Through this portal, weather forecasts in English, Hindi and twelve regional languages will ...

El garbanzo de la campiña cordobesa busca tener su Indicación Geográfica Protegida (IGP). Para ello se está trabajando en un proyecto, dirigido por Íñigo Priego, ingeniero agrónomo, quien nos ha explicado qué hace que la campiña cuente con un garbanzo único en el mundo. “En la provincia contamos con suelos arcillosos que provienen de vertisoles. ...

Satellite-based remote sensing allows us to see much more than we can see when standing on the ground. New research from the University of Minnesota found, when combined with artificial intelligence, remote sensing could dramatically improve management of soybean aphid, an invasive pest that negatively impacts soybean yield and quality. Published in the journal Crop ...