Market Watch
March 18, 2019
In China, traders are using streaming apps to predict the future of grain prices, reports Gemma Minda Iso for the Independent Singapore. For instance, a farmer in the rural northeast utilizes his phone to film trucks lining up to load...
Market Watch
March 12, 2019
Unmanned aerial vehicles or UAVs, which are more popular as drones, are evolving from specialist gadgets to consumer electronics items on the one hand and industrial tools on the other, writes Fan Feifei on ChinaDaily.com.cn.
In the process, they are...
Market Watch
May 7, 2018
Maurcio Nicocelli Netto's main purpose of visiting the Canton Fair in China's Guangzhou City was to learn about new agricultural technology and how it might be used in Brazil.
Last month I visited China to learn...
Market Watch
November 22, 2017
Farmers in China have caught up with the country's booming drone trend and started using unmanned aircraft to spray pesticide onto the fields, according to an article on DailyMail.co.uk.
Not only that, a team of villagers in central China recently...
Market Watch
November 16, 2017
The buddy seat on Rick Kimberley’s combine-harvester is a fine vantage point from which to observe precision farming. The combine’s satellite navigation allows farmers to make the most of good weather and to reap in the dark during peak...
Market Watch
September 18, 2017
A new powerful chip technology has been introduced in China's national satellite navigation system to provide high-precision positioning, according to an article on EconomicTimes.IndiaTimes.com.
The chip, which will be attached to the satellites of BeiDou Navigation Satellite System, was unveiled...
Data Management
April 29, 2016
The 2nd China International Agricultural Remote Sensing Application Technology Summit (ARS 2016) will be held in Langfang, China, September. 27-28, and hosted by Hebei Province Spaceflight Remote Sensing Information Processing and Application of Collaborative Innovation Center, North China Institute of Aerospace Engineering,...
Guidance
April 8, 2016
China launched a Beidou satellite into orbit on a Long March 3A rocket on Tuesday as the country seeks to gain independence from and eventually rival American GPS services, reports Andrew Jones over at gbtimes.com.
The Long March rocket lifted...
Guidance
January 22, 2016
Howard Dahl of Amity Technology talked about precision ag around the world at the fifth annual Precision Ag Summit in Jamestown, ND. Photo credit: Trevor Peterson/The Forum.
Howard Dahl of Amity Technology says precision agriculture will...
Market Watch
February 17, 2011
Geospatial solutions provider RapidEye recently announce that the second coverage of China for the Ministry of Land and Resources (MLR) in as many years has been delivered.
The imagery campaign, which ran from August 1, 2010 through January 11, 2011...
Market Watch
September 28, 2007
China Agriculture University (CAU) in Beijing has a Precision Agriculture Laboratory that employs numerous professors and about 90 doctorate-level graduates, not just to learn from everything they can import from the "West", but to leapfrog wherever they think useful...
