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Researchers remotely map crops, field by field The team used machine learning to analyze satellite and roadside images of areas where small farms predominate and agricultural data are sparse. Date ...
But for India's nearly 200 million marginal farmers, many of whom borrow heavily to cultivate plots smaller than two acres, the fate of one crop can make the difference between life and death.
NEW DELHI — An invasion by swarms of desert locusts has devastated crops in India’s heartland, threatening an already vulnerable region that is struggling with the economic cost of coronavirus ...
Crop sowing was down 9.3% until last week. The planting of summer-sown crops takes place in the monsoon months of June and July, while harvesting starts in October.
NEW DELHI (AP) — An invasion by swarms of desert locusts has devastated crops in India's heartland, threatening an already vulnerable region that is struggling with the economic cost of ...