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Rajasthan Farmers Get AI Tools For Crop Health And Real Time Weather Updates
The Rajasthan Agriculture Department has partnered with Wadhwani AI to provide 95 lakh farmers with real time updates and artificial intelligence solutions for crop diseases, weather changes, and irrigation management.
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At NDTV Yuva, Galgotias University Students Share Ideas On AI-Driven Automation
At the event, students from Galgotias University presented ideas which ranged from AI-driven automation and cybersecurity to farm monitoring systems and crop disease detection tools.
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'Nothing In Pods': Crops Hit, Madhya Pradesh's Soybean Farmers Face Uncertain Future
Madhya Pradesh stands as the heart of India's soybean production, contributing nearly half of the nation's supply and earning the state the title of India's soybean bowl.
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'Farm Of The Future': How AI Is Helping Sugarcane Farmers In Maharashtra
For centuries, unpredictability has been the bane of a farmer's existence, with too little or too much rain, pests and disease all threatening to destroy crops, pushing him into debt and, in some cases, even driving him to suicide. How AI is helping.
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Banana Apocalypse Could Be Averted Thanks to Genetic Breakthrough
A recent breakthrough in genetic research offers new hope for saving the world’s banana supply from fusarium wilt, a devastating disease that threatens the Cavendish variety. This study, detailed in Nature Microbiology, sheds light on how this disease, which previously wiped out the Gros Michel bananas in the 1950s, is now affecting Cavendish ban...
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Memes And Pictures Flood Social Media As Lahore Engulfs In Thick Smog
According to experts, a significant factor contributing to the pollution issue is the practice of burning crop residue at the beginning of the winter wheat-planting season.
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37,000 Alien Species Catalogued, Cost Humans $423 Billion Per Year: Report
Invasive species that wreck crops, ravage forests, spread disease, and upend ecosystems are spreading ever faster across the globe, and humanity has not been able to stem the tide, a major scientific assessment said Monday.
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Scientists Are Developing Portable Technology to Test Foodborne Viruses Like Noroviruses, Mycotoxins
Team of international researchers from the US and the UK have are working actively to develop portable, rapid biosensors capable of detecting noroviruses and mycotoxins in foods and agricultural products. Noroviruses are the leading cause of foodborne illness globally and are highly contagious, while mycotoxins are produced by fungi that can grow i...
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IIT Mandi Finds Way To Detect Disease In Potato Crops Via Photographs
Scientists from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mandi, have developed a computational model for automated disease detection in potato crops using photographs of its leaves.
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Here's How Bacteria Responsible For Food Poisoning Enter Your Salad Vegetables!
A new study has indicated that there might be another way that salmonella bacteria may be finding their way into your salad vegetables- through their roots
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Here's How You Can Curb Cancer Pain
Cancer pain can crop from anything, either from the disease itself or the treatment.
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Climate Change Harms Health Worldwide As Millions Swelter: Study
Climate change has caused severe harm to human health since the year 2000 by stoking more heat waves, the spread of some mosquito-borne diseases and under-nutrition as crops fail, scientists said on Tuesday.
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Deadly Wheat Disease Enters India Through Porous Bangladesh Border
It's not just smuggling - if currency and cattle - that plagues the porous India-Bangladesh border in West Bengal. In Murshidabad and Nadia districts, a deadly fungal infection that affects wheat and is capable of wipe out the entire harvest of a nation, has entered India. Last year, the disease had badly affected Bangladesh and now in West Bengal,...
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iPhone 6 Plus: Apple Announces 'Multi-Touch Repair Program' After 'Touch Disease' Complaints
Apple claims that display issues crop up after a user presumably drops the phone on several occasions ‘incurring stress on the device’.
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Growing Environmental Threat From Animal-to-Man Diseases: UN
The most worrying environmental threats facing the world today range from the rise in diseases transmitted from animals to humans to the increasing accumulation of toxic chemicals in food crops as a result of drought and high temperatures, according to a U.N. report released Friday.
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Rajasthan Farmers Get AI Tools For Crop Health And Real Time Weather Updates
The Rajasthan Agriculture Department has partnered with Wadhwani AI to provide 95 lakh farmers with real time updates and artificial intelligence solutions for crop diseases, weather changes, and irrigation management.
-
At NDTV Yuva, Galgotias University Students Share Ideas On AI-Driven Automation
At the event, students from Galgotias University presented ideas which ranged from AI-driven automation and cybersecurity to farm monitoring systems and crop disease detection tools.
-
'Nothing In Pods': Crops Hit, Madhya Pradesh's Soybean Farmers Face Uncertain Future
Madhya Pradesh stands as the heart of India's soybean production, contributing nearly half of the nation's supply and earning the state the title of India's soybean bowl.
-
'Farm Of The Future': How AI Is Helping Sugarcane Farmers In Maharashtra
For centuries, unpredictability has been the bane of a farmer's existence, with too little or too much rain, pests and disease all threatening to destroy crops, pushing him into debt and, in some cases, even driving him to suicide. How AI is helping.
-
Banana Apocalypse Could Be Averted Thanks to Genetic Breakthrough
A recent breakthrough in genetic research offers new hope for saving the world’s banana supply from fusarium wilt, a devastating disease that threatens the Cavendish variety. This study, detailed in Nature Microbiology, sheds light on how this disease, which previously wiped out the Gros Michel bananas in the 1950s, is now affecting Cavendish ban...
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Memes And Pictures Flood Social Media As Lahore Engulfs In Thick Smog
According to experts, a significant factor contributing to the pollution issue is the practice of burning crop residue at the beginning of the winter wheat-planting season.
-
37,000 Alien Species Catalogued, Cost Humans $423 Billion Per Year: Report
Invasive species that wreck crops, ravage forests, spread disease, and upend ecosystems are spreading ever faster across the globe, and humanity has not been able to stem the tide, a major scientific assessment said Monday.
-
Scientists Are Developing Portable Technology to Test Foodborne Viruses Like Noroviruses, Mycotoxins
Team of international researchers from the US and the UK have are working actively to develop portable, rapid biosensors capable of detecting noroviruses and mycotoxins in foods and agricultural products. Noroviruses are the leading cause of foodborne illness globally and are highly contagious, while mycotoxins are produced by fungi that can grow i...
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IIT Mandi Finds Way To Detect Disease In Potato Crops Via Photographs
Scientists from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mandi, have developed a computational model for automated disease detection in potato crops using photographs of its leaves.
-
Here's How Bacteria Responsible For Food Poisoning Enter Your Salad Vegetables!
A new study has indicated that there might be another way that salmonella bacteria may be finding their way into your salad vegetables- through their roots
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Here's How You Can Curb Cancer Pain
Cancer pain can crop from anything, either from the disease itself or the treatment.
-
Climate Change Harms Health Worldwide As Millions Swelter: Study
Climate change has caused severe harm to human health since the year 2000 by stoking more heat waves, the spread of some mosquito-borne diseases and under-nutrition as crops fail, scientists said on Tuesday.
-
Deadly Wheat Disease Enters India Through Porous Bangladesh Border
It's not just smuggling - if currency and cattle - that plagues the porous India-Bangladesh border in West Bengal. In Murshidabad and Nadia districts, a deadly fungal infection that affects wheat and is capable of wipe out the entire harvest of a nation, has entered India. Last year, the disease had badly affected Bangladesh and now in West Bengal,...
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iPhone 6 Plus: Apple Announces 'Multi-Touch Repair Program' After 'Touch Disease' Complaints
Apple claims that display issues crop up after a user presumably drops the phone on several occasions ‘incurring stress on the device’.
-
Growing Environmental Threat From Animal-to-Man Diseases: UN
The most worrying environmental threats facing the world today range from the rise in diseases transmitted from animals to humans to the increasing accumulation of toxic chemicals in food crops as a result of drought and high temperatures, according to a U.N. report released Friday.
