Start-up leverages power of AI to enable more cost-effective acceleration of greenhouse agriculture
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Start-up leverages power of AI to enable more cost-effective acceleration of greenhouse agriculture
some researchers are doing genetic work on new varieties of crops that can recruit bacteria to fix nitrogen for them. In addition, one company has developed genetically modified microbes that fix…
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The one source of variability for revenue nowadays is the weather, because all the other risks of farming have largely been eliminated through herbicide, fungicide, and insecticide technologies.
greenhouse tomatoes are among the world’s most heavily fertilized crops: per unit area they receive up to 10 times as much nitrogen (and also phosphorus) as is used to produce grain corn, America’s leading field crop.[38] Sulfur, magnesium, and other micronutrients are also used, as are chemicals protecting against insects and fungi. Heating is the
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