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Surplus and vintage equipment to be auctioned by Cheffinsedit
Agriland – Online
Cheffins will make a welcome return to holding live auctions with two sales, one of surplus equipment and the other of vintage machinery. Stepside Agricultural Contractors of Cardigan, Wales, will be disposing of items that are no longer required due to a change in policy. The company is a family owned partnership based in Cardigan, west Wales, which was established 50 years ago. Recently, it has decided to look again at its business policy and from now on, will be specializing in the waste, slurry and digestate sectors. The auction will include over 80 lots of agricultural tractors, a forage harvester, slurry tankers, muck spreaders, plant and grassland machinery. Danial James of Stepside notes that much ...
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Self-Driving Tractor Is Controlled By Phone, Allowing Farmers To Chill Outsideedit
Indiatimes – Online
Whenever we think of tractors, we’ve often imagined a farmer sitting inside it, navigating it through the fields, however, popular tractor company John Deere has now introduced autonomous tractors that remove the farmer out of the farming equation. The fully-autonomous tractors dubbed 8R was showcased at the Consumer Electronics Show 2022. They’ve actually been in testing with a select group of customers “for a few seasons” with prototypes being piloted in fields since 2019. The tractor sports six pairs of stereo cameras that are powered under the hood by Nvidia Jetson modules that offer a complete panorama of its surroundings. The camera array supports 360-degree obstacle detection. As per the company’s claims, the images captured by ...
Technology in Agriculture
App under development to help people know about agriculture in dialects of Bengaledit
ThePrint – Online
Two institutes of the country have teamed up to develop a speech recognition app that will help less educated people of West Bengal understand different aspects of agriculture and economy in their own dialects. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology (MAKAUT) said it is collaborating with Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, to bring out the app which will be used by people for free. “Initially, about 12 dialects from North Bengal and South Bengal are considered for this research,” the head of the MAKAUT Technology Cell, Pritimoy Sanyal, said. The whole research work is divided into two parts. One part is collecting words used on agriculture and economy in various dialects and the other ...
Artificial Intelligence in Agricultureedit
Daily Excelsior – Online
Agriculture is considered to be the backbone of Indian economy and plays an important role in the overall socio-economic development of India. In today’s era of growth and development one needs to be updated with the precise information pertaining to the area of agriculture which can be achieved by using the concept of artificial intelligence.The efficiency of farming lies in a farmer’s ability to predict natural conditions and react to them in the quickest way possible. A few decades ago, the precision of such forecasts wasn’t so reliable but now, it’s impressively havingbecome possibleby instant data gathering and distribution with the help of various artificial intelligence tools and techniques. There is no other business that ...
Monsoon + Indian Agriculture
West Bengal govt assesses crop damage due to unseasonal rainedit
The Week – Online
The West Bengal government has started an exercise to assess crop damage due to recent unseasonal rain and advise farmers to take necessary steps to protect their produce from pest attacks, a minister said. State agriculture minister Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay stated that his department is monitoring the situation so that there would be no shortage of foodgrains at a time when the economy is grappling with the COVID-19 pandemic and food inflation. “Our officials have been sent to fields after the unseasonal rain occurred since January 11. We want to complete a quick assessment of crop damage in areas that received rainfall,” he said. The officials have also been asked to interact with farmers to protect ...