By; Matthew Margetts,the Director of Sales and Marketing at Smarter Technologies. Agricultural development has the potential to boost shared prosperity, end extreme poverty and feed the world’s growing population. In fact, growth in the agriculture sector is two to four times more effective in ...

Spectral imaging is the detection of light reflected by the crop with the use of specialized sensors. It is measured in spectral bands. The higher the number of bands the higher the accuracy, the flexibility and information content. Spectral imaging is widely used now in agriculture and precision ...

The internet of things has taken the globe by storm, each and every establishment is looking at adopting technologies to increase their efficiency and decrease cost with the help of the internet of things. The increase in population has also led to an increase in demand for food crop and dairy ...

Precision farming is a concept related to the management of farming which observes, measures and responds to inter as well as intra-field inconsistency in crops. The aim of the concept is to introduce a decision support system to the entire farm management with the objective of boosting returns on ...

Financial accessibility, cost competiveness in agribusiness transformation mainly in Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania, as well as use of precision farming, hydroponic systems are just some of the highlights at CMT's 6th Commercial Farm Africa, in Nairobi on 30-31 October, 2019 The leading agribusiness ...

CNH Industrial has announced its agreement to acquire AgDNA, a leader in Farm Management Information Systems (FMIS). This acquisition will enable CNH Industrial’s customers, and those of third party agricultural machinery, to benefit from AgDNA’s single point data integration, mapping and ...

The expansion of the worldwide market for precision farming is impacted by various elements. Machine to machine checking in a general sense lets devices to easily connect with each other with no human obstruction. Along these lines, growing implementation of M2M monitoring agricultural application ...

Prabdeep Bajwa (left) shakes hands with Jacques Taylor (right) after they signed the MoU John Deere, the world’s largest manufacturer of agricultural equipment and Corteva Agriscience, the global leader, in two large, attractive markets – seed and crop protection – underpinned by expanding digital ...

Visitors to the world’s largest manufacturer of agricultural equipment John Deere’s trade show stand at the South African Agricultural Trade Show (NAMPO) can expect to be delighted at the expansive floor space it will occupy at this year’s event. At 3000 sqm, it is its largest showing at NAMPO with ...

John Deere is offering South African software firms with a focus on the agriculture and logistics sectors the opportunity to link their applications with its online Operations Center solution, a centralized farm management platform that collects machine, logistic and agronomic data to help farmers ...