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Revolutionizing Agriculture Through Artificial Intelligence

World Agri-Tech

He elaborates that in Kenya, Farmer.Chat is improving agricultural call center operations, halving response times and increasing advisory accuracy, while AI-driven fertilizer and water management advisories have boosted crop yields while reducing input costs in India. This has resulted in up to 25% yield increase in key markets.

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GroundWork BioAg announces launch of the Rootella Carbon program

World Agri-Tech

Rootella Carbon harnesses the power of Rootella – highly effective mycorrhizal inoculants that are proven to sequester significant amounts of carbon in cropland (1-4 tCO 2 eq/acre annually). million acres in 17 countries. Rootella Carbon delivers on that vision by paving the way to a gigaton of CO 2 sequestration in the next decade.”

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A Blueprint for Cooling our Blue Planet

Farming Secrets

Decreased water and wind erosion as with the current rate of soil loss by 2050 we will have lost 95% of arable lands to degradation and desertification. Increased soil microorganism biodiversity, nutrient density of produce and increased yields! Increased soil carbon, soil nitrogen, soil moisture, nutrient cycling.

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Colorado’s Groundwater Experiment

Civil Eats

Fields in the San Luis Valley yield two billion pounds of potatoes a year, making the region the nation’s second-biggest spud producer. In southwestern Colorado’s high desert, producers already till fewer acres, tax themselves to fund fallowing programs, and plant less water-intensive crops.

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Southern Black Farmers Sow Rice and Reconciliation

Civil Eats

Created on Madagascar and practiced in about 60 countries today, SRI has been shown to increase grain yields, sometimes twofold. Thats because so much rice is grown around the world: Roughly 11 percent of all arable land is devoted to this crop, a daily staple for half the people on Earth. acres are reserved for vegetables.

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Can Agriculture Kick Its Plastic Addiction?

Civil Eats

These synthetic polymer products have often been used to help boost yields up to 60 percent and make water and pesticide use more efficient. As contamination rose, crop yields fell by 15 percent. While the trials were limited to farms less than 80 acres in size, Zinati sees major promise in expanding the practice.