According to Ding Quanwei's son, Ding Zehui, a university graduate majoring in husbandry, smart agriculture was the future, and that rural areas held great potential. With this in mind, he chose to ...

A farm innovation to spray pesticides and fertilisers using an improvised tractor fitted with boom spray is taking roots in parts of Punjab, cutting labour costs, improving efficiency, and even ...

Double spraying is costly and wasteful; missing a row when spraying pesticide can cause pests to concentrate there and then spread, nullifying a whole spraying operation. The data for the maps are ...

See also: Editor’s View: Now’s the time for ceasefire with Red Tractor Also in this episode – the government unveils long awaited plans to reduce pesticide usage by 10% within five years.

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. France has opened the skies to drones in a landmark move that marks the return of aerial pesticide spraying—albeit with a distinctly green twist ...