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Vietnam's Persistent Heavy Rain Devastates Agriculture: Northern Region Flooded, Durian Trees Die Off en Masse in Central Highlands
Vietnam's persistent heavy rain devastates agriculture: heavy rain in the north kills 3 people, floods more than 16,000 houses, and damages 22,000 hectares of crops; in the Central Highlands, durian orchards in Gia Lai Province suffer from diseases triggered by waterlogging, with thousands of hectares of durian trees affected and large numbers of trees dying from resin oozing and root rot.
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Smart agriculture upgraded again: AI light technology precisely analyzes crop conditions to help prevent disasters
The Tainan Research, Development and Evaluation Commission is promoting smart agriculture through the Smart City and Living Application Subsidy Program of the Industrial Development Bureau, Ministry of Economic Affairs, and is cooperating with Geosat Aerospace & Technology to use drones for crop spraying and disease image recognition, effectively reducing agricultural disaster losses. The Tainan Research, Development and Evaluation Commission and the Smart Development Center, through the Industrial Development Bureau of the Ministry of Economic Affairs' Smart City
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Experts urge rice farmers to switch to organic farming: helps make land sustainable and prevents lodging disaster losses
As extreme climate becomes increasingly severe, the first rice crop harvest period every June often encounters days of torrential rain, causing rice ears to turn green-yellow, lodge and sprout, and farmers rushing to harvest green-cut rice, resulting in agricultural losses; the government must allocate funds to purchase the disaster-affected rice. Liu, head of the Department of Agriculture at Mingdao University
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Gender equality reaches deep into the mountains of Shenkeng as veteran tea masters guide the fun of tea-making
Traditionally, tea picking is mostly done by women, while tea masters are mainly men. To break the gender stereotypes of the industry, the Social Affairs Bureau of the New Taipei City Government, together with the Shenkeng District Office, held "Tea Mountain Daughters' Tea-Making Fun" at the Paozilun Farmers' Market, where men can go into the mountains to pick tea, and women
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Severe mouse plague in eastern Australia, rat rain appears from granary equipment
The mouse plague in eastern Australia has been severe over the past six months, with farmers facing the worst rodent infestation in decades. Videos of the local rat infestation have gone viral online, among them a clip posted on Twitter by Australian journalist Lucy Thackray, in which a farmer, while cleaning granary equipment, is seen with a huge mass of rats
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Agricultural drones have wide applications, excelling at spraying, fertilizing and disaster surveying
Nowadays drones are being used more and more widely, and they are also used in agriculture. Let's take a look together. Unmanned aerial vehicles are seen as a promising new capable assistant for the future development of agriculture. Not only has the Civil Aeronautics Administration been busy drafting regulations, under which anything above 250 grams will in future require real-name registration, but all sectors are also actively investing in developing agricultural and other uses of drones. The Agricultural Research Institute of the Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan, has set up a drone team and is currently building experimental data; in future it is expected to establish a set of operating manuals for farmers to refer to.
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What protections does agricultural major disaster insurance offer? Building agricultural occupational disaster protection is imperative
Farmers themselves lack awareness of occupational safety, and when an accident happens they also lack occupational disaster insurance claims; afraid that the crops will not be harvested in time, they grit their teeth and keep farming despite illness and pain. Compared with other industries, is agriculture actually high-risk? Is there a legal basis to protect the occupational safety of those who work in farming?
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When to plant organic edamame? Master the right climate and sowing time
Edamame is an excellent health food, rich in protein, vitamins, etc. Besides being stir-fried as a vegetable, it can also be eaten as a snack. The annual production in this province is about 60,000 metric tons, most of which (80%) is exported. Trial cultivation was carried out in the Yilan area from 1991 to 1993 (the 80th to 82nd years of the Republic of China calendar), and the results showed that this
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Can Farmer Produce Circulation Joining Forces Stop the Price Roller Coaster?
On December 18, the first industry self-regulatory organization in the agricultural products circulation sector of Sichuan Province, the Sichuan Agricultural Products Circulation Association, was officially inaugurated, drawing public attention. Against the backdrop of the Internet Plus era, what role will the Agricultural Products Circulation Association play? Facing the "roller coaster" phenomenon in agricultural product prices
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2014 autumn grain season off to a good start, with a heavy disaster-prevention task ahead
As the farming proverb says, the 15th day of the seventh lunar month decides drought or flood, and the 15th day of the eighth lunar month decides the harvest. Right now, there is less than a month to go before drought or flood is decided, and two months before the autumn grain matures. At present, the foundation for autumn grain production is sound, but compared with previous years, an El Nino event of at least moderate intensity is very likely this year.
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