Cropin Blog

JULY 14, 2023

Limited arable land, climate change and a rapidly growing world population also add to the challenges. However, weeds, pests, and diseases — destroy over 40% of potential output. If farmers are not provided with appropriate products to help crops withstand infestation and disease, it will affect global food security.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 26, 2023

Credit: World Resources Institute According to Strategy and PWC , GCC countries import about 85% of their food and approximately 56% of vegetables, largely due to the highly limited arable land in the region, averaging 4.25%. As stated by Ryan M. Lefers, Mark Tester and Kyle J.

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Food Tank

JUNE 22, 2024

They also don’t require arable land or freshwater; they grow in abundance on land and by sea. Algae also offer environmental benefits: The organisms can capture carbon dioxide from the environment, acting as a carbon sink , according to the Carbon Capture Science & Technology journal.

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World Agri-Tech

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

We will not rest until every hectare of arable land is protected by mycorrhizae and every farmer benefits from higher crop yields while preserving our soils. Groundwork BioAg’s unique and proprietary manufacturing process was the first to solve challenges inherent in high-volume, supremely concentrated mycorrhizal inoculant production.

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Trimble Agriculture

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Of that lost land, 4.4 million acres were considered “nationally significant,” meaning it was some of America’s best land for food and crop production. Supply of arable land per capita has declined by 0.5 Preserve American Farmland America lost 25 percent of its farmland since 1950 due to urbanization.

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Farmers Weekly

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Farmers Weekly Soil improver, waste recycler and atmospheric carbon capturer – there’s a lot of excitement about the potential benefits of biochar. Equally, there are a lot of unknowns about whether that potential will be realised in practice.

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Farmers Weekly

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Farmers Weekly For the past eight years a direct drill was the only piece of equipment Wiltshire mixed arable and beef farmer George Hosier has used to establish his arable crops.

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Agritecture Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2022

CEA can help to correct certain issues with traditional agriculture, such as limited arable land, limited water resources, and unpredictable weather patterns. National Geographic estimates that we’ll need to “roughly double the amount of crops we grow by 2050.”

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The Lunatic Farmer

JANUARY 18, 2024

Large endowments of arable land and other natural resources are not required to lead the disruption, so the opportunity exists for any country to capture value associated with a global industry worth trillions of dollars that ultimately emerges over the course of this disruption. Major exporters of animal products, like the U.S.,

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Agritecture Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

A recent report by McKinsey revealed that while Africa has large amounts of untapped agricultural land that could be used to increase production, much of this land is in unreachable areas. The lack of infrastructure, conflict zones, forest cover, and large conservation areas has made lots of arable lands inaccessible.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

So, while these solutions may make sense for some countries with more efficient technology, more developed markets, and low arable land, in other countries they would not. Instead, it might make more sense to grow outdoors or in other mixed methods in these places.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 15, 2024

With arable land at a premium— urban sprawl is a growing threat to the farming region—“I’m lucky to have a big yard,” says Mateo. Customers now include nearby restaurants, and with business booming, he’s put a 10-by-20-foot greenhouse in the backyard and hopes to upgrade to a larger vertical farming structure in the near future.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In China, for example, research shows that plastic field covers keep the soil warm and wet in a way that boosts productivity considerably; an additional 15,000 square miles of arable land—an area about the size of Switzerland—would be required to produce the same amount of food.

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Farmers Weekly

JULY 11, 2023

Farmers Weekly A revolutionary new tyre that is kinder to soils than tracks is set to help farmers further reduce the compaction risk from tractors later this year.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

Instead of clearing expanses of arable land, she says, we can plant gardens that build on the existing natural elements of a place, forage for wood sorrel on the edges of garden beds, and gather purslane that’s poking through cracks in cement.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 15, 2023

Some producers have switched to land-based protein sources, such as soymeal and soy oil. But Schester says that approach creates a similar dilemma: taking protein from arable land that could directly feed people and turning it into fish feed. There is no free lunch when it comes to fish farming,” he adds.

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