What If the Postman Becomes Part of the Farming System?
A farmer in a remote village may be far away from an agricultural office, but there is one service that already reaches many rural communities: the postal network. Odisha is…
India-Built AI Is Now Helping Farmers Beyond India
What started as an effort to understand India's farms is now becoming a global agricultural tool. Google DeepMind has developed two AI models in India that analyse satellite imagery to…
How British Berry Growers Turned Extreme Heat Into a Bigger Harvest
This summer has been brutal for much of British agriculture. Record heatwaves, drought and water shortages have damaged cereals, grasslands and several other crops. Yet in one corner of the…
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Farmers Are Starting to Look at Their Fields From Space
A farmer normally checks a crop by walking through the field. But increasingly, the first warning that something is wrong can come from hundreds of kilometres above it. Satellites are…