Agricultural Technology

Most catfish losses in Nigeria don’t happen suddenly. The water quality slides for days, the fish eat a little less and the ponds smell a […]

Imagine a maize farmer who pays for crop insurance before planting. The rains arrive late, stop during flowering, and return after the crop has already […]

A modern farm can generate a surprising amount of information before a farmer has even finished breakfast. A tractor can record where it travelled, how […]

A farmer can have fertile land, a nearby borehole and a clear market for vegetables and still struggle to produce during the dry season simply […]

A farmer does not need a complicated smartphone application to benefit from digital agriculture. In many parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, a basic mobile phone can […]

Imagine an irrigation controller working in a village where the mobile network disappears for several days. The system still reads soil moisture. It still knows […]

For many smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa, precision agriculture sounds more expensive than it needs to be. The phrase often brings to mind autonomous tractors, […]

Gene editing has moved from a promising laboratory technique into a serious agricultural policy issue. CRISPR-based tools can alter specific DNA sequences much faster than […]

Harvesting is one of the hardest agricultural tasks to automate because a machine has to do much more than move through a field. It must […]

Fertilizer sits at the center of one of agriculture’s most difficult balancing acts. Farmers need nutrients to produce profitable yields, restore depleted soils and close […]