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FAO and SADC member states plan to develop regional agricultural mechanisation roadmap

The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) and development partners have launched a Technical Cooperation Project titled ‘Developing a Roadmap to Leverage Sustainable Agricultural Mechanisation for Climate Smart Agriculture (SAM4CSA) in Southern Africa’, which seeks to address challenges around sustainable agricultural mechanisation in the region

CNH Industrial unveils first electric tractor prototype

At its Tech Day in Phoenix, Arizona, CNH Industrial revealed the New Holland T4 Electric Power – the industry’s first all-electric light utility tractor prototype with autonomous features

New Holland Agriculture introduces world’s first LNG tractor

On 9 December, New Holland Agriculture unveiled the next step in its Clean Energy journey with the T7 Methane Power LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) pre-production prototype tractor

"Technology in agriculture is the weapon to tackle the crisis," says Paolo De Castro at Eima in Bologna

At the 45th edition of Eima International, organised by FederUnacoma and Bologna Fiere, Paolo De Castro, MEP, several times Minister of Agriculture and a full member of the Agriculture Committee of the EU Parliament said, "Technological innovations, with the application of Smart and Precision Farming, confirm their place as necessary tools that can no longer be postponed for farmers grappling with a severe energy crisis and soaring raw material costs, which are putting a strain on farm incomes”

Making farming smarter through AI

Modern image recognition which requires powerful cameras or sensors combined with intelligent algorithms is becoming more and more prevalent in agriculture, thus enabling at least partially autonomous machine use in many fields

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