Agriculture

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‘Minimalistic’ robotic arm could be ideal for apple picking and space missions

View from India: Good irrigation creates employment

‘Super Monster Wolf’ unleashed to scare pests away from Japanese farms

Review

Review: Somewhere in Between at the Wellcome Collection, London

Agricultural robots developed to replace lost Brexit workers

Beef lobby group demands formal definition of ‘meat’ to counteract lab-grown rival foods

Gene-edited crops could overcome lower yields caused by climate change

Tobacco farms transformed into solar farms could benefit all, study suggests

China will try to clean up millions of acres of polluted farmland by 2020

Robots set to replace humans on ‘cucumber flyers’ on German farms

Skills shortage ‘holding back IoT adoption in agriculture’

Comment

View from India: Tomorrow beckons as India goes digital

British engineer's hydroponic food system for disaster areas wins UN backing

‘Fake poo’ developed to stress-test sanitation systems

The power of poo: energy from excrement

Agricultural robot autonomously counts plants and measures stem width

‘Smart fertiliser’ tablets created for slow release of nitrogen

Leaf sensors allow farmers to know exactly how much water they need for crops

Chinese farmers to be offered biofuel subsidies to cut farm waste

Mangroves could be planted by drones in Myanmar restoration effort

Five per cent chance of global warming being kept below two degrees, study shows

Plants engineered for the perfect compromise

Environmental cost of using corn as biofuel “much greater” than corn as food

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