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The initiative aims to better the livelihoods of the farmers. (Image source: Dennis Jarvis/Flickr)

The Forest and Farm Facility initiative, a partnership among FAO, IIED, IUCN and AgriCord initiated in 2013, has announced efforts to help forest and farm producers and their organisations develop climate-resilient landscapes, strengthen enterprises and generate work opportunities and create more enabling policy environments for the rural poor

With IIoT, agri-businesses to increase in the coming years. (Image source: uncoolbob/ Flickr)

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is set to make a sizeable contribution to the global economy by 2023, according to a new global study by Inmarsat, the world’s leading mobile satellite communications company

Demand for grapes, pears and strawberries are on top in the Southeast Asian nations. (Image source: evic dong/Flickr)

The exports of agricultural products have hit a record high in the first half of 2018, mainly because of the strong demand from China and Southeast Asian countries, according to a report by South Korea’s Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs

Thailand aims to increase coconut production to meet the domestic demand. (Image source: Hafiz Issadeen/Flickr)

Thailand’s Ministry of Commerce is planning to reduce the import of coconut and institute a tighter control on the importers, aiming to address the price slump of Thai coconut

Supervised autonomy, one of the five categories of automation as defined by Case IH, allows an operator in one tractor to supervise the operation of a tractor in the same field without an operator. (Image source: Case IH)

Since the reveal of the autonomous concept vehicle, Case IH has been evolving the technology and further defining automation and autonomy as it relates to agriculture

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