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https://hakaimagazine.com/videos-visuals/rice-farming-gets-an-ai-upgrade/>
"One of the most persistent images of Vietnam is that of farmers bending over
rice fields, wearing conical, woven hats as they work by hand. Yet, that mental
image could use a digital-age update: along the lower Mekong River, rice fields
are often empty of people. Instead, drones—sometimes the size of suitcases—fly
over the fields.
Globally, rice is a key staple food, and in the late 1980s, as Vietnam shifted
its rice fields from commune-based public ownership to private holdings,
motivating farmers to increase production, the country emerged as one of the
world’s largest rice producers. Fifty percent of the nation’s rice crop is
grown in the delta of the Mekong River, which drains into the South China Sea.
Farmers in the region plant rice during He Thu (summer–autumn), Dong Xuan
(winter–spring), and Mua (monsoon). They plow and level fields using farm
machinery and then, in the absence of drones, scatter seeds by hand or plant
seedlings one at a time before flooding the field. To give rice shoots a boost,
they add fertilizer. And when confronted with a host of damaging diseases, such
as leaf blast—caused by the fungus
Pyricularia oryzae—or pests, such as weedy
rice, they respond with an arsenal of pesticides."
Via
Fix the News:
https://fixthenews.com/dawn-solar-age-same-sex-thailand-nature-europe/
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
