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World potato Congres 2012
March 01, 2012
Space age agronomy on show at the World Potato Congress
Satellite technology developed during the cold war is set to deliver state-of-the-art crop monitoring systems to help growers improve agronomy and drive up profits. Although the technology dates back several decades, its capabilities for remote sensing...
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Moisture probe in a potato field to measure the moisture content of the soil (picture added in 2017)
May 26, 2010
Frito-lay wants to run the chips factory on water extracted from the potato
Food giant PepsiCo has come up with a novel way to cut its water consumption - by extracting it from potatoes and recycling it.
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