CropsIRRI and Vietnamese partners ran six trainer workshops on precision nutrient management and the Rice Crop Manager app, a digital tool that gives field-specific fertiliser advice, for nearly 750 farmers, extension staff and cooperative leaders.
AgrotechClive Bailye's AI farming agent, Giles, watched the government site, filled in his Sustainable Farming Incentive form when the window opened and had it ready to review by 10.30am; the pot closed at 3.48pm.
AgrotechAgritistics' Stefan Corbett says farmers already hold more data than they think, and that notebooks, WhatsApp or a spreadsheet are enough if every reading is taken the same way.
AgrotechThe food and agriculture sector logged 227 ransomware incidents through July, up from 140 a year earlier, and connected farm equipment widens the risk, a threat-intelligence group warns.
AgrotechHalf of surveyed farms now have mobile coverage over less than half their land, one in seven had to replace working equipment, and only two of 126 reported problems have been fixed.
AgrotechThe single-window portal links PM-KISAN, AgriStack and crop insurance with eligibility checks, direct applications and DBT payments, and is built to run on basic smartphones with weak connections.
AgrotechJohn Deere is expanding its Operations Center so farmers can document no-till, cover crops and nutrient management for the Biofuel Feedstock Report that ethanol and biodiesel makers need to claim extra 45Z tax credits.
AgribusinessShobha Shetty of the World Bank-hosted GAFSP told SciDev.Net that digital farm tools only help women when loans, repayment and payment channels fit them, citing a women's potato cooperative in Bangladesh.
AgrotechGoogle has put its India-built Agricultural Understanding models into public preview for developers and researchers, and says a Gujarat state platform using them has sent more than 900 million SMS advisories to over 600,000 farmers.
AgrotechIFAD and EU-funded Innovatech 2.0 linked tech startups with 811 producer organisations in Bangladesh and five Latin American countries, putting market, finance, crop-management and traceability tools in farmers' hands.
AgrotechAfter workshops with more than 150 stakeholders, university researchers propose an Agriculture Cybersecurity Consortium with five regional centres, as attacks on food and drink companies rose 62% in the first half of 2026.
AgrotechFarmer cooperative Regen Farmers Mutual has built Farm Assistant, an AI tool that turns voice notes, photos and texts from the paddock into farm records, and 20 farmers are piloting it.
AgrotechCatchmentAI's Probcast shows growers all 18 Met Office simulations behind a forecast, with traffic-light spray windows. A Defra Adopt project led by Northamptonshire farmer Stuart Tabernor seeks 70 growers to measure its value.
