It can also be used for a variety of other purposes such as powering natural-gas vehicles heating homes and making fertilizer.
Precision agriculture will allow us to optimize resources so that it should be possible to deliver 70 percent more food on the land we have today.
The technology has also been contemplated as a way to spread genes that would make weeds more susceptible to herbicides like Roundup.
#How LEDS Are Set to Revolutionize Hi-tech Greenhouse Farming It won't come as a surprise to discover that consumers all over the developed world are increasingly demanding seasonal vegetables all year round even
Which is why greenhouse farming has become a major factor in the food supply of the developed world.
Consequently the number of commercial greenhouses and the area they occupy is rocketing. In The netherlands for example greenhouses occupy around 0. 25 percent of the land area of the entire country.
And The netherlands isn t even the largest producer of greenhouse vegetables in Europe. That position is held by Spain.
And the largest producer of greenhouse vegetables in the world is now China. This kind of farming has a significant impact on the environment.
Commercial greenhouses have to be lit and heated in a way that optimizes growth. And up to 35 percent of the cost of greenhouse tomatoes comes from this heating and lighting.
So an important question is how to minimize the energy it takes to grow these crops.
One obvious answer is to convert greenhouses from the traditional incandescent lighting usually high pressure sodium lamps to more energy-efficient LEDS.
That might seem like an economic no-brainer but the industry has been slow to make this change because of the high initial cost of LEDS.
These guys have compared the life-cycle costs of traditional high pressure sodium lamps against those of LEDS for greenhouse lighting.
For the moment the strategy for greenhouse farmers seems clear: convert to LED lighting as quickly as possible.
Greenhouses allow for a wider variety of fruit and vegetable for a given climate. LEDS give farmers greater flexibility at a lower cost and a smaller environmental footprint.
"said Dr. Carmen Gomes, Agrilife Research engineer with the Texas A&m University department of biological and agricultural engineering, College Station.
Two of Hinestroza students created a hooded bodysuit embedded with insecticides using metal organic framework molecules,
While insecticide-treated nets are common in African homes the antimalarial garment can be worn during the day to provide extra protection
the nanoparticles can form the basis for developing pesticide products that reduce risk, have minimal environmental impact,
and pesticides that are all present in the same sample, and we can do this in one step. nd the nanoparticleshigh surface-area-to-volume ratio means that only a small amount is needed to remove a relatively large quantity of pollutants.
banned for use as a pesticide in the U s . since 1972 but still widely used in other parts of the world,
Optimal irrigation can improve quality and quantity of crops and increase farmers incomes and profitability.
The Saturas sensor provides accurate information for optimized irrigation to reduce water consumption with no stress to the plants and increases fruit production and quality.
Saturas'precision agriculture sensing system comprises of miniature implanted sensors wireless transponders and delivery of information to the farmer's Internet device:
Despite numerous approaches to sensor-based irrigation including measuring soil and leaf moisture the market lacks a solution that combines accuracy ease of use and affordability.
The Saturas sensing system tailors irrigation to the crop's real-time water needs resulting in more efficient water use
and efficient industrial product to achieve a precise irrigation tool for farmers worldwide. Source: http://trendlines. com/portfolio/saturas s
it evident the Big Island agriculture industry has sustained a severe blow. Richard Ha, president of Hamakua Springs Country Farms
to the fertilizer they don have an account at the fertilizer company, they have to pay cash.
we have upwards of seven years of herbicide and pesticide and maintenance, caring and fertilizing of these trees.
There some serious cost in there. It cost us right around $4, 500 an acre.
He said three of his four 5-acre greenhouses in Panaewa sustained roof damage which will ultimately have an effect on his crops.
lack of nutritional resources and exposure to pesticides. gripulse noted that The Washington post reported that the EPA will announce that it will accelerate a review of the effects of neonicotinoid pesticides on pollinators
and impose new restrictions on what pesticides farmers can use when commercial honeybees are pollinating their crops.
and fertilizer more efficiently, lowering their costs enough to more than pay for the technology investment while maintaining or even improving yields.
#Meet the Machine That's Turning Grocery stores'Food waste Into Fertilizer Larry Lesueur is used to former peers from the software world asking him,
The final product, WISERGANIC fertilizer, is sold both to farmers and to consumers at the stores that scrapped the leftover potato salad in the first place.
The company is processing 15,000 gallons of fertilizer per month. The Harvester also delivers data to help stores cut down their food waste. t not about just how much goes out the back door
Freight Farms transforms shipping containers into self-contained farms that grow fresh produce using LEDS and hydroponics,
#RNA insecticide could leave oodbugs alone An insecticide currently in development targets a specific gene
the RNA-based insecticide can be effective for at least 28 days when sprayed on a leaf.
whether an RNA-insecticide spray would be stable enough to use in agriculture. They matched double-stranded (ds) RNA to an actin gene in the Colorado potato beetle
the ds actin-RNA insecticide was highly effective on potato beetles that ate the leaves. he major problem with conventional insecticides is they affect non-target organisms,
a professor of Cornell entomology and a coauthor of the study in Pest Management Science. his is an insecticide that is based on a specific gene.
and the stalk is placed in solution with RNA insecticide, and potato beetles ate that leaf, mortality occurred but it wasn as high.
The insecticide needs more work before it is ready to market Scott says. For example, the cost of making RNA insecticide is currently much higher than conventional insecticides.
Also, for insects need to eat sprayed leaves for it to work so insects that don eat leaves, such as houseflies,
#Bed nets can#t stop new#super mosquito#Bed nets treated with insecticide aren enough to stop a new uper mosquito?
and S formsof Anopheles gambiaeut now recognize them as separate species. t uperwith respect to its ability to survive exposure to the insecticides on treated bed nets,
in this case a breakdown in the reproductive isolation that separates them, Lanzaro says. hat we provide in this new paper is an example of one unusual mechanism that has promoted the rapid evolution of insecticide resistance in one of the major malaria mosquito species
. The insecticide resistance came as no surprise, Lanzaro says. rowing resistance has been observed for some time. Recently it has reached a level at some localities in Africa where it is resulting in the failure of the nets to provide meaningful control,
Insecticide-treated nets can be credited with saving many thousands probably tens of thousands of lives, in Mali alone, Lanzaro says.
Much of that is attributed to the insecticide-treated bed nets. However, it was just a matter of time for insecticide resistance to emerge.
Now there n urgent need to develop new and effective malaria vector control strategies, Lanzaro says.
including new insecticides, biological agentsncluding mosquito-killing bacteria and fungind genetic manipulation of mosquitoes aimed at either killing them
including underground, inside a skyscraper, in a tiny greenhouse and even in the cloud, to try and deal with the issue.
along with cameras and sensors that monitor the plants bunches of basil (used to make Liguria's iconic pesto sauce) growing either in hydroponics or in soil.
along with current Malaria prevention techniques, like bed nets. 80%of the children involved in the clinical trials were protected also by insecticide treated bed nets.
in agriculture, more effective harvesting of solar energy and its conversion into heat via greenhouses could enable year-round production as well as access to crops not currently available in certain climates.
They become as safe as fertilizer.""Zhiyong Cai, project leader for an engineering composite science research group at FPL,
says that the particles could be the basis for reduced risk pesticide products with reduced cost and minimized environmental impact."
says that the particles could be the basis for reduced risk pesticide products with reduced cost and minimized environmental impact."
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says that the particles could be the basis for reduced risk pesticide products with reduced cost and minimized environmental impact."
and provide feedback at a conference organized by Jain Irrigation, Inc.,a company based in Jalgaon, India.
helping them to use less fertilizers and water, and to control the general condition of their crops.
whether a plant needs more or less watering, pesticides or plant foods. These sensors give us several indexes,
reducing pesticides, using traditional techniques and sustaining endangered quality production. The bean was lost almost a crop.
precision agriculture is a welcome tool: We stand for sustainable agriculture, so we try to make the most of technology in each case,
Two of Hinestrozas students created a hooded bodysuit embedded with insecticides using metal organic framework molecules,
While insecticide-treated nets are common in African homes the antimalarial garment can be worn during the day to provide extra protection
says that the particles could be the basis for reduced risk pesticide products with reduced cost and minimized environmental impact.
which include pesticides and endocrine disruptors such as bisphenol A (BPA) with existing methods is often expensive and time-consuming.
Nanoparticles that lose their stability upon irradiation with light have been designed to extract endocrine disruptors, pesticides,
and pesticides that are all present in the same sample, and we can do this in one step.
banned for use as a pesticide in the U s . since 1972 but still widely used in other parts of the world,
"The community's sole source of water, the Byron-Bethany Irrigation District, was one of 114 senior water rights holders cut off by a curtailment notice from the state on Friday,"reports CBS. And just like that,
They become as safe as fertilizer.""It will be years before computers containing wood-based computer chips hit store shelves,
but computers as fertilizer isn't a totally crazy idea. Society tends to treat electronics as disposable commodities.
Many of the mosquitoes that carry the disease are also resistant to pesticides, which meant that Brazilians were left with few options to decrease dengue prevalence.
The researchers hope this will enable the breeding of bespoke poppy varieties including those that produce the anticancer compound noscapine.
he discovery of the STORR gene provides us with a new tool for molecular plant breeding,
uses hydroponics systems and LED lighting to produce a range of vegetables and herbs including celery, rocket, parsley, radish,
A pesticide free farming process-the results of 18 months of research and preparation-has been designed to produce crops with the least amount of energy expenditure possible.
The operators claim the hydroponics and looped irrigation system they use requires 70 percent less water than open-field farming
and can produce crops all year round, but perhaps Growing Underground greatest asset when it comes to low-impact farming will be its location.
Already this year wee seen advancements like Japan largest indoor farm, which claims to be up to 100 times more productive than outdoor fields.
And a new development set to open in New jersey later this year is transforming an old steel factory into the world largest vertical farm.
this facility is expected to produce up to 1 million kilograms of pesticide free produce annually. With food supply management and security looking to be an increasing concern this century due to all sorts of environmental and economic factors,
This has affected the implementation of the planned WAAPP activities said Africarice scientist Bert Meertens who is assisting the Sierra leone Agricultural research Institute in WAAPP activities.
and fertilizers and adopt improved technology to address labor shortages. Africarice is involved actively in discussing
thus improve the development of the agricultural industry y
#Insights into a rare genetic disease Recently a grassroots effort initiated by families and clinicians led to the discovery of a human genetic disorder with severe consequences that is linked to a mutation in the human NGLY1 gene.
The process could be applied in plant breeding as a way to create haploid plants with genetic material from only one parent,
They become as safe as fertilizer.""Nowadays, the majority of portable electronics are built on nonrenewable, non-biodegradable materials such as silicon wafers,
Several PCBS, the pesticide Mirex and ß-hexachlorocyclohexane, a by-product of the pesticide Lindane, were linked also strongly to earlier menopause.
and nitrous oxides from fertilizers and other soil treatments rose 13 percent after 1990, the study concluded.
Reducing the overuse of fertilizers, protecting the organic content of soils by changing farming practices,
fertilizer and equipment needed to feed everybody. hifting consumption toward less beef and more chicken,
The South korean"index patient"was running a farm equipment company in Bahrain, according to a South korean official,
The severe shortages of rain and snowfall have hurt California's $46 billion agricultural industry and helped raise national awareness of the longer-term shortages that are affecting the entire Colorado river basin.
and the state's agricultural industry is suffering. A recent study by U. C. Davis researchers projected that the drought would cost California's economy $2. 7 billion in 2015 alone.
They become as safe as fertilizer. Zhiyong Cai project leader for an engineering composite science research group at FPL,
In a world first, Professor Wallace Cowling from The UWA Institute of Agriculture and his team have taken the breeding model commonly used by animal breeders,
Animal breeders have developed a method of breeding that takes into account information from all relatives across all generations.
the new breeding method could speed up genetic improvements for desirable traits such as grain quality and yield.
In their broader uses, microbial polymers are used for food production, chemical production, detergents, cosmetics, paints, pesticides, fertilizers, film formers, lubricants, explosives, pharmaceutical production and waste treatment.
Two of Hinestroza students created a hooded bodysuit embedded with insecticides using metal organic framework molecules,
While insecticide-treated nets are common in African homes the antimalarial garment can be worn during the day to provide extra protection
Alexander Richter, the paper first author and an NC State Ph d. candidate says that the particles could be the basis for reduced risk pesticide products with reduced cost
#RNA insecticide could target specific pests A novel insecticide targets a specific gene in a pest,
killing only that bug species on crops and avoiding collateral damage to beneficial insects caused by today pesticides.
a Cornell study published online in Pest Management Science describes how the RNA-based insecticide can be effective for at least 28 days
whether an RNA-insecticide spray would be stable enough to use in agriculture. The researchers matched double-stranded (ds) RNA to an actin gene in Colorado potato beetle
the ds actin-RNA insecticide was highly effective on potato beetles that ate the leaves. he major problem with conventional insecticides is they affect non-target organisms,
the manager in Scott lab. his is an insecticide that is based on a specific gene. Thus, you might be able to kill only that specific insect,
and the stalk is placed in solution with RNA insecticide, and potato beetles ate that leaf, mortality occurred but it wasn as high.
Before such an insecticide is ready for market, it needs more work, Scott said. For example, the cost of making RNA insecticide is currently much higher than conventional insecticides.
Also for the insecticide to work, insects need to eat the leaf, which means the spray will not affect insects that don eat leaves, such as houseflies,
or those that suck sap, such as aphids. Also, some insects are unaffected simply, perhaps due to gut enzymes that break down the ds RNA. he technology is really at its infancy,
They become as safe as fertilizer, "said Ma. He added:""Mass-producing current semiconductor chips is so cheap,
For example, companies that perform these releases have no way of breeding only males.""They're throwing away half of the mosquitoes that they rear because theye females,
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