Dr Lisbeth Riis, founder and CEO at Scarab Solutions, has explained how getting to grips with downy mildew requires preventive measures, effective scouting, early intervention and regularly executed control
Agriculture
AI uses satellite imagery to solve agronomic challenges
Aerospace giant Airbus is marketing Verde, an AI-powered crop analytics service, on the Agri-food Data Marketplace launched by Agrimetrics, the UK Agri-Tech Centre for Innovation in Data Science
Precision farming market to expand 3X through 2029, says Fact.MR
Rising labour costs, low availability of skilled labour and surging demand for farm produce will propel the global precision farming market to a stupendous 12 per cent CAGR from 2019 to 2029, according to Fact.MR
Agricultural and food businesses are turning the tide on gender inequality
Unilever has achieved 50/50 gender balance in leadership roles across its brands and BASF has committed to increasing the number of women at the top to 30 per cent by 2030 after achieving its 20 per cent by 2020 target a year ahead of schedule
FAO advances global action to fight fall armyworm
FAO has advanced global action to control the spread and damage of fall armyworm, a voracious invasive species that is ravaging crops in Africa, Asia and the Near East