THE ALGORITHMIC FARM: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN MODERN AGRICULTURE

Agriculture has been a humanity’s enterprise for over 10,000 years, helping transform nomadic societies into civilizations. Yet, despite improvement farming remains reactive, subject to unpredictable weather, pest pressures, soil degradation and resource scarcity forcing farmers to make critical decisions based on limited information. Currently with global populations exceeding 8 billion and shrinking land area, we…

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Speed Breeding: From Faster Generations to Better Varieties

Megha M S¹, Akhil S². ¹Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Centre for Plant Breeding and Genetics, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore 641 003, Tamil Nadu, India ²Department of Agricultural Microbiology, B. A. College of Agriculture, Anand Agricultural University, Gujarat- 388110, India Introduction Developing a new crop variety is rarely a quick job. A breeder…

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