Chandigarh University develops AI-based mobile app to detect crop disease
The artificial intelligence (AI) based mobile application will be able to detect 39 diseases in two crops while the study…
Biotechnology could provide an environmentally more sustainable alternative to egg white protein production
Egg white is one of the most important protein ingredients for the food industry. The first assessment of the environmental…
Peanut researchers create disease-resistant hybrids
Georgia farmers produce half the peanuts grown in the U.S. each year, using proven production practices to fight disease in…
Soil tillage reduces availability of ‘longevity vitamin’ ergothioneine in crops
Soil tillage on farms may significantly reduce in crops the availability of ergothioneine (ERGO), an amino acid produced by certain…
Excessive salts in the soil can be removed by adding gypsum, organic matter
Wheat and rice farming on the vast Indo-Gangetic plains, affected by excessive salts in the soil, can be cost-effectively improved…
Farmers reaping significant benefits from carbon credits
Agriculture’s conventional revenue is no longer the only source of income. Almost 500 farmers in north coastal Andhra Pradesh are…
Govt. extends applicability of new investment Policy-2012 for HURL’s 3 fertilizer plants
The Union Cabinet on Tuesday approved the extension of applicability of the New Investment Policy-2012 for three upcoming units of Hindustan Urvarak…
Innoterra to help Konkan Alphonso growers take their mangoes global this season
Innoterra, an Indo-Swiss food and technology platform, has worked with Konkan farmers’ cooperatives to offer premium GI-tagged alphonso mangoes to…
Punjab, Haryana farmers intensify marketing campaign towards direct sale to personal silos
Farm leaders admitted that some farmers skilled been offering their produce at elevated costs proper to private silos in Punjab,…
500 Million Euros to be given by EU to help farmers for growing crops on fallow land
To combat food price increases and potential shortages caused by Russia’s war in Ukraine, the European Union would provide farmers…