South Africa’s Just Transition Framework recognises the agricultural sector as a-risk in the green transition and sets out various principles to achieve it responsibly.
Food goes to waste at every stage in the food manufacturing and distribution process – from farming and production to packaging, storage, distribution, retail and finally, once it reaches consumers.
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 […]
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. […]
