In a greenhouse in Belgium, a small robot moves through rows of strawberries growing on trays suspended above the ground, using machine vision to locate ripe, flawless berries, then reaching up with a 3D-printed hand to gently pluck each berry and place it in a basket for sale.
Every year millions of acres of forest are cut down to make room for ever-growing herds of livestock.
Insects, diseases and weeds are a farmer’s worst nightmare — pests cause severe crop damage and jeopardize harvests.
The agriculture industry influences many sectors of the economy locally as well as internationally.
Human beings have been obsessed with the concept of intelligence and have developed various instruments to understand and measure it. Intelligence is essentially the use of the brain to understand complex and diverse phenomena.
One way to improve profitability, is to reduce input costs. When it comes to maize, one of those inputs – and a particularly significant one at that – is nitrogen fertiliser. But how much could you save if your maize, like legumes, could fix its own nitrogen?
