OpinionAgricultural Research in Bangladesh: From Research to Real-World Solutions
Why Bangladesh needs more farmer-centred, field-based, data-driven and impact-oriented agricultural research
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Technology in farming: machinery, smart irrigation, drones, sensors and digital services, new varieties and research breakthroughs.
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AgrotechAgricultural mechanisation: the key to success in modern farming
Tractors, combine harvesters, rice transplanters, drip lines and drones are raising yields and cutting costs on Bangladesh's farms, from land preparation to harvest. What is in use, where the country stands, and what still holds it back.
AgrotechFarming without land or farmers: Japan's technology revolution
With its farmers averaging almost seventy and its farmland down by nearly a third in six decades, Japan is turning to vertical farms, robots, drones, soil-free growing and self-running greenhouses. What that means for the world, and what Bangladesh could borrow.
AgrotechTunnel technology: a modern way to grow vegetables
A polythene-covered arch lets the farmer set his own weather. From Jashore's seedling villages to monsoon tomatoes: how to build a tunnel, which vegetables suit it, and what it offers in off-season crops, higher yields, fewer pests and less water, along with the risks to watch.
VegetablesKamalganj's grafted tomato seedlings, on wild brinjal roots, go to farms nationwide
Nurseries in Kamalganj, Moulvibazar, graft tomato shoots onto hardy wild brinjal roots, producing 6.5 to 7 million disease- and rain-tolerant seedlings a season worth Tk 5 to 6 crore.
LivestockMonil adds calving alerts and grazing maps to its virtual fence collars
The Norwegian livestock tech company's solar-powered cattle collars will warn farmers when a cow is calving and map how hard each pasture is grazed, as it grows in the US and doubles its warranty to ten years.
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AgroSustain and Herd Advance win Tesco's 2026 Agri-tech Challenge
A Swiss crop-protection coating and a British cattle-monitoring system won the supermarket's two categories, earning trials inside its supply chain where farmers and suppliers can see them work.
AgrotechBrazil clears Switch Bioworks to field-test its nitrogen-making microbes
The US startup's engineered soil microbes switch on nitrogen production around a crop's roots about six weeks after planting; Brazil's biosafety approval opens field trials in a country that imports most of its fertiliser.
AgrotechAntobot plans 300 UV-C robots in strawberry fields next year
The UK startup's autonomous robots treat strawberry crops with UV-C light instead of fungicide sprays, and it now wants 300 of them deployed in 2027 as growers buy the machines outright.
AgrotechNDSU weeding robot reaches 96.5% efficacy in sugar beet rows without herbicide
North Dakota State University engineers built a robot whose three independently controlled sweeps follow the ground by RTK-GPS and force sensors, cutting soil disturbance by 48.7% in field trials.
AgrotechEcorobotix says its spot sprayer cut spray volume 84% in a grass seed trial
In a 2025 Oregon State University trial, the camera-guided ARA sprayer hit grass weeds inside a tall fescue seed crop with glyphosate, using 34 litres a hectare, the maker reports; the full research report is not public.
FruitsKnitted 'Plant Armor' cover more than triples strawberry yields in trials
A 3-D knitted fabric laid over strawberry plants keeps insects off while letting light, rain and air through; in North Carolina tunnel trials covered plants yielded up to 3.56 times more fruit.
CropsCIMMYT sends more than 4,000 maize and wheat seed samples to the Svalbard vault
The new deposit extends the safety backup of the genebank in Mexico, which holds about 28,630 maize and more than 124,000 wheat accessions conserved as global public goods for research and breeding.
AgrotechMassey Ferguson adds a 7S Mark 2 tractor series with factory-fitted farm data software
Six models from 170 to 245hp pair AGCO Power's Core75 engine with a Dyna-VT CVT and will be the first tractors to leave the factory with PTx's FarmENGAGE operations software; deliveries start in spring 2027.
FisheriesBangladesh shares its Artemia and GIFT tilapia experience with Kenya and Ghana
A WorldFish workshop in Dhaka looked at how integrated Artemia, fish and vegetable farming on Cox's Bazar salt pans and three decades of GIFT tilapia could be applied in Kenya and Ghana.
AgrotechFour opportunities that could shape the next wave of agricultural technology
Speakers at the World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit in London pointed to shared resilience finance, leaner agtech funding, products that fit farm systems and better risk intelligence as the next openings for agricultural innovation.
AgrotechCotierra raises $3 million to take farm biochar from coffee to cocoa, cotton and citrus
The Swiss climate-tech start-up turns crop residues into biochar in small reactors near where they are produced and returns it to soils, and will use the money to make its system a repeatable hardware and software product.