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
Agriculture
Precision farming market to expand 3X through 2029, says Fact.MR
Precision farming services offer the most remunerative growth opportunities with a stupendous 16 per cent CAGR through 2029. (Image source: RDLH/Pixabay)
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
A Fall Armyworm on a maize plant in Sri Lanka. (Image source: FAO)
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
Japan allows year-round access for US chipping potatoes
In 2019, the US exported 32,240 mt of fresh chipping potatoes to Japan. (Image source: Christos Giakkas/Pixabay)
Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (MAFF) has confirmed that the US chipping potatoes will be allowed to enter Japan all year round, starting 14 February 2020
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