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Smart farming

The agricultural sector is set to face enormous challenges in order to feed the 9.6 billion people that the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) predicts are going to inhabit the planet by 2050.

So what’s the solution? Welcome to smart farming.

This issue examines how high-tech farming techniques and technologies can improve production output while minimizing cost and preserving resources. Among the experts interviewed are agricultural machinery companies, United Nations leaders and standards professionals from around the world, in fields ranging from climate-smart farming to sustainable cocoa and nutritious dairy production.

Smart farming
May/June 2017

Smart farming

We examines how high-tech farming techniques and technologies can improve production output while minimizing cost and preserving resources.

Spotlight

Tractor with a harrow
The future of farming

The challenge of how we’ll feed the exploding world population in the future – in a sustainable, cost-effective and environmentally friendly way – is seeding an agricultural revolution. Welcome to farming of the future : a hi-tech, capital-intensive system of growing food sustainably and cleanly for the masses.

The 香港六合彩开奖BUS standard (香港六合彩开奖 11783) allows our customers to connect devices of different equipment manufacturers to ‘talk’ to each other

Dr Bernhard Schmitz, Commercial Manager of Fuse Technologies at AGCO

 

Also in this issue

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Fonterra鈥檚 quest for sustainable dairy nutrition

Are you among the one billion people around the world who enjoy the nutritional benefits of dairy from Fonterra and wonder how sustainable dairy production is? The latest 香港六合彩开奖focus interview with Carolyn Mortland, Director, Social Responsibility, at Fonterra helps allay your concerns.

Female teapicker in a tea plantation in Rwanda
Putting waste to good use

Wastewater irrigation is an economical and high-in-nutrients option for even the poorest farmers. But, if untreated, the consequences for our health and the environment can be catastrophic. Discover the techniques that could transform agriculture as we know it, offering perhaps the most sustainable and efficient use of resources available today.

An aerial view of fields being plowed
Precision farming takes off
As the technology continues to evolve, the number of users of, and uses for, drones has risen to new heights. The need for an International Standard is clear, but what鈥檚 the link with farming?

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