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Smart sensor training for packed fish at Nagapattinam
30-Jun-2025 - 0 Comments.
Nagapattinam’s Fisheries College trains locals on smart eye sensors for fish freshness, boosting seafood safety, marketing, and entrepreneurship.
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World's first auxin sensor transforms plant monitoring
21-May-2025 - 0 Comments.
In a breakthrough that could redefine precision agriculture, researchers have developed the world’s first species-agnostic nanosensor capable of non-invasive, real-time detection of indole-3-acetic acid (IAA)—the primary form of auxin, a hormone essential to plant growth and stress response.
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Marut Drones receives world's first patent for direct seeding device
22-Feb-2024 - 0 Comments.
Marut Drones, a leading Indian drone manufacturer, has been granted the world's first utility patent for its innovative direct seeding device designed for rice cultivation.
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Test soil health in just 90 seconds, courtesy IIT Kanpur
26-Dec-2021 - 0 Comments.
In a first, IIT Kanpur has developed a portable soil testing device that can detect soil health in just 90 seconds through an embedded mobile application.
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Bayer inks pact with FaunaPhotonics to develop sensor technology for insect monitoring
05-Dec-2016 - 0 Comments.
Bayer and FaunaPhotonics, Copenhagen, Denmark, have entered into a three-year research cooperation to develop new sensor solutions for improved monitoring of agricultural insect pests as well as non-target insects including beneficials.
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ICRISAT develops first low cost portable device to detect Alfatoxins in crops
27-Jul-2016 - 0 Comments.
Hyderabad based global agriculture research body; International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) has developed new low cost portable devices to detect aflatoxins in crops.
