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  Posted by Tom on Jun 15, 2010 with 1 comments Permalink | Reply
  Tags: agriculture, mobileComputing (3)

  Plant health clinics: “Many poor countries offer no agricultural services to subsistence farmers and have little or no money for cars and fuel that would let agents journey to rural areas to offer help. Now a development organization based in Britain wants to step into the breach by expanding a program of plant-health clinics in many more countries. … The program dispatches experts to set up shop in villages on market day and invite farmers to bring in diseased plants and local insects. … Local people are trained to eventually take over and support the clinics by charging small fees….. A CABI spokeswoman said a study had shown that farmers who used its Bolivian clinics were earning an extra $4 a day. ” http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/08/health/08glob.html

   

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  Posted by Tom on Jun 1, 2009 with 0 comments Permalink | Reply
  Tags: agriculture, robotics (2)

  Interesting article on robots and their move into agriculture: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17224-robots-rolling-towards-farm-revolution.html