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Agriculture

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Science

Agricultural trade is three times more harmful to biodiversity

Ashwini Sakharkar

Agricultural exports from 1995 to 2022 affected land use changes in the producing countries.

Environment

International agricultural trade has caused 90 percent biodiversity loss

Jay Kakade

Biodiversity loss due to agricultural trade three times higher than previously thought.

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Plants

eDNA could help farmers boost crop production

Ashwini Sakharkar

Study reveals how eDNA could bear fruit for farmers and the environment.

Prototype of Electro-Farming | Image Credit: Feng Jiao
Plants

Electro-agriculture can enable the cultivation of food in the absence of light

Jay Kakade

Using the same inputs as photosynthesis, electro-ag offers a 4-fold improvement in solar-to-food efficiency

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Technology

StarFusion, an innovative fusion method for precision agriculture

Ashwini Sakharkar

Transforming satellite imagery!

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Biology

Butterflies build static electricity to attract pollen without touching it

Dr. Prajakta Banik

Butterflies and moths collect enough static electricity while flying to pull pollen from flowers across gaps of several millimeters or centimeters. This likely makes...

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Nanotechnology

Improving agriculture with nanotechnology

Amit Malewar

An argument for applying medical insights to agriculture.

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