South Africa’s Just Transition Energy Framework: Transforming Agribusiness Sustainably
The Just Transition Framework recognises the agricultural sector as a-risk in the green transition and sets out various principles to achieve it responsibly.
Advanced food processing technologies could make the food industry more sustainable
Globally we lose or waste just over a third of the food we produce every year.
Precision livestock farming (PLF)
Precision livestock farming (PLF) is a sub-set of digital agriculture and precision farming. The reader is referred to those pages. At the close of the last century, livestock farming worked with average values per group, largely because of the size of operations. With the aid of technology like software and electronic identification (EID), Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) returns to […]
Precision farming
Photo by Johny Goerend on Unsplash Also see the “Digital agriculture”, “Drones”, “Mapping” and “Agricultural media and ICT” pages. Introduction Precision farming utilises six ultra-modern technologies: Global Positioning Systems (GPS), which provides a navigation system to establish a position of a tractor or combine anywhere in a land within less than 2 meters on a latitude-longitude grid overlay. […]