It is imperative that farm and food sector receive short-term exemptions from lockdown. (Image source: CallyL/Pixabay)
Food shortage in the UK would be a serious crisis under a coronavirus lockdown and it is imperative that plans are in place to ensure the supply chain remains open, functional and optimised, according to Andre Laperriere, executive director at Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN)
FAO is set to the initiative with its hand-in-hand initiative. (Image source: Pexels/Pixabay)
A team of researchers inspect samples of many different rice varieties at the Lao PDR Rice Research Center (RRC)
Prisma ensures lowering of the temperature without reducing the passage of light in the PAR spectrum (Photosynthetically Active Radiation). (Image source: Arrigoni)
Arrigoni, a leading international company in the production of technical fabrics for agriculture, has presented new tests on the effectiveness of the Prisma thermo-reflective screens and Biorete Air Plus for this type of crop
Rose varieties differ greatly in their susceptibility and tolerance to downy mildew, but many of the susceptible varieties are in high demand and fetch a good market price. (Image source: Capri23auto/Pixabay)
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
Verde promises significant benefits for service providers and large agribusinesses, for whom remote field scouting promises substantial time and cost savings. (Image source: Verde)
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
