Top tech innovations in agriculture
Top tech innovations in agriculture
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Data preserved in soil :
For traditional farming models, perhaps the primary determinant of supply capacity is simply the availability and suitability of land. However, any idea of future potential must be built on current data, with what data there is then mapped to tell the story of a region. This story is effectively written in the dirt, the soil.
The Africa Soil Information Service (AfSIS) is developing continent-wide digital soil maps for sub-Saharan Africa using new analysis, statistics, field trials and crowdsourcing. Funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the ISRIC World Soil Information AfSIS project has forged key partnerships with governments, plus a range of stakeholders and academic institutions, including the Earth Institute at Columbia University. Innovative farming ideas, such as digital soil mapping, especially in data-sparse regions such as Africa, are key to planning sustainable agricultural intensification and natural resources management. With open access, these interactive maps are publicly available to be explored on Google Earth.
Innovative agriculture moving underground :
Singapore relies heavily on imports for more than 90 per cent of its fruit and vegetables. It might, therefore, surprise diners to find out that their rocket, radish and baby spinach has actually been cultivated locally. Not only that, but it has been grown in Singapore’s first licensed indoor vegetable farm, by an electronics giant better known for TVs: Panasonic.
Annual soil-based production capacity at the initial Panasonic facility launched last year was 3.6 tonnes, but the company is by no means the only high-tech brand developing farm tech solutions to showcase technology rather than make profit.
Sharp is growing strawberries in Dubai, while Sony, Toshiba and Fujitsu are all utilising former clean-room facilities at semiconductor plants across Japan for lettuce. These no-wash, no-soil greens are cultivated by means hydroponics and grown at more than twice the speed of normal field production, thanks to specialised LED lighting to optimise photosynthesis.
Greens fed on rainbow waste :
One popular innovation in agriculture is embracing a virtuous circle of reciprocity. Hydroponics, as the name suggests, is a growing method which uses mineral-enriched water. Aquaponics takes matters a step further, bringing together fish and plant farming in one recirculating system.
At Bioaqua Farm at Blackford in Somerset – the largest integrated aquaponic farm in Europe – vegetables are grown and Rainbow Trout reared together in organic symbiosis, without chemicals or pesticides, but with the help of bees and worms.
The fish provide most of the plant nutrition, by way of aquaculture effluent. In turn, fish waste metabolites are removed by nitrification and direct uptake by plants, with the suitably treated water then flowing back to the fish. In all, it is claimed this innovative farming idea requires up to 95 percent less water than traditional horticulture farming.
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