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Challenges and Innovations Driving the CEA Sector in GCC and MENA

Agritecture Blog

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%. What sets KRISPR apart is their commitment to incorporating innovative technologies in their operations.

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Israeli tyre tech to help farmers improve soil health

Farmers Weekly

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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Agritecture’s Top 10 Blog Posts of 2022

Agritecture Blog

Discussions around labor development, technology innovation, and industry movement appear to be the most engaging. Is Cold Plasma the Next Big Technology Breakthrough in Indoor Ag? Cold plasma technology has established uses in traditional outdoor agriculture, but its uses have not been explored in indoor agriculture until recently.

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Cultivating Profits in a Compact Crop

Modern Farmer

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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GroundWork BioAg announces launch of the Rootella Carbon program

World Agri-Tech

Groundwork BioAg announced the global launch of the Rootella Carbon program, based on mycorrhizal carbon – a frontier technology that leverages mycorrhizal fungi as a nature-based solution for carbon dioxide removal.

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WILD SCIENCE FICTION

The Lunatic Farmer

The whole of the cow milk industry, for example, will start to collapse once modern food technologies have replaced the proteins in a bottle of milk—just 3.3 In some markets, only a small percentage of the ingredients need to be replaced for an entire product to be disrupted. percent of its content. Before we reach this point, the U.S.

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Exemplary Approaches to Hybridizing Agriculture

Agritecture Blog

Various technologies and methodologies have begun to crop up over the last decade, presenting themselves as “silver bullets” to this food system problem. 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.