Paul Bakibinga and Dickens Olewe
BBC News
With global population set to top 10 billion by 2050, the UN says agricultural output needs to rise by 70%.
Africa will be key as it is home to two-thirds of the world’s uncultivated arable land.
The BBC’s Taurai Maduna has been to South Africa’s Western Cape to see how drones and data analytics are set to change the game.
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Johan van der Merwe
Landbouweekblad Agri Megaweek Promosie
As presisieboerdery vir jou ’n mikpunt is, is Aeroview ’n uitstekende hulpmiddel in jou boerdery.
Aerobotics, ’n tegnologiemaatskappy van Kaapstad, se digitale platform is nou bekostigbaarder en gebruikersvriendeliker as ooit. Die maatskappy is al meer as drie jaar lank gemoeid om dataverwerking vir die landbou bruikbaar te maak.
Mnr. Hein Gerber, sitrusboer van die First Fruit Farms by Simondium naby die Paarl, sê Aeroview, Aerobotics se dataverwerkingsplatform, is die gebruikersvriendelikste platform wat hy nog teëgekom het.
“Vir die boer wat bereid is om moeite te doen en ’n behoefte het om in meer detail presisieboerderypraktyke toe pas, sal hierdie platform gewis van waarde wees.
With current drought conditions being experienced in the North West, Free State, Kwa-Zulu Natal and Mpumalanga, the South African irrigation farmer is, now more than ever, faced with the problem of “how to produce more, with less”, and to make every drop count.
In order to manage our strained water resources, as well as practice good environmentally sustainable practices, farmers rapidly have to introduce new technologies to improve their efficiencies and yields. In the irrigation farming environment, irrigation scheduling appears to be the most popular and cost effective way to achieve just that.
Irricheck™ is independent of hardware manufacturers, however, prescribe that the most efficient irrigation scheduling hardware in use currently is the continuous logging soil moisture capacitance probe, coupled to a GPRS unit, in order to measure live soil-moisture content and temperature data.
At the start of 2016, First Fruits Consulting increased its current consulting capacity by appointing Waldo Krige as Horticulturist and Soil Scientist. Waldo acquired his BSc (Horticulture/Soil Science) degree at Stellenbosch University. Waldo will specialize in the nutrition of citrus cultivars and related production practices.
Christine Spreeth joined our Team in July 2015 as a Technical Assistant. She has a BSc Degree (Molecular Biology and Biotechnology) from Stellenbosch University.
Welcome to the team!
Maura Maxwell
www.fruitnet.com
Producers in South America are counting the cost of the worst flooding in 50 years following weeks of heavy rain brought on by El Niño. Tens of thousands of hectares of agricultural production in Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Brazil have been affected.
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