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Smartphones emerging as main farming tools in China

With 96 per cent of China's villages connected to the Internet and each rural household having on an average three mobile phones, the sickle and hoe have been replaced by the smarphones and apps as the country's emblematic farming tools. In…

IRTA works towards the development of new high-quality wheat cultivars with resilience to climate change

As a consequence of the climate change drought conditions are expected to worsen in a near future with warmer temperatures, causing increased crop evapotranspiration, and lower and more erratic water availability affecting the major wheat producing…

UK agrisupply businesses looking outside the UK due to Brexit uncertainties

With so much uncertainty surrounding what Brexit means, UK agribusinesses are already moving operations out of Britain and others are taking irreversible decisions on business location and investment, a workshop organised in London by the Agri-Brexit…