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APRIL 2018

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TECHNOLOGY,
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Special Interest Articles:

•DEFINITION OF AGTECH
•HISTORY OF AGTECH
•GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Highlights:
-TYPES OF MACHINERY
-EXAMPLE OF MACHINE
-BIOTECHNOLOGY HELP
-ALGRICULTURE
ENGINEER Story Headline
Last Story Headline

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DEFINITION OF AGTECH!
Agricultural for practically every
stage of the
technology refers
agricultural process.
to technology for the
They include
production
machines for tilling
of machines used on
the soil, cultivating
a farm to help
planting seeds,protec
with farming.
ting them from pests
Agricultural machines
and weeds, harvesting,
have been designed threshing
grain, livestock feeding,

HISTORY OF AGTECH :

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1) The first people to turn dominated agriculture for
from the hunting and thousands of years.
gathering lifestyle During this time, most
to farming probably relied people worked in
on their bare hands, agriculture, because
perhaps aided by sticks each family could barely
and stones. raise enough food for
Once tools such as themselves with the
knives, scythes, limited technology of the
and plowswere day.
developed, they
2)With the coming of

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The Industrial TYPES OF MACHINERY:
Revolution led to
advances in Combines might have prepare the soil for
agricultural taken the harvesting job planting by loosening the
technology that away from tractors, but soil and killing weeds or
greatly tractors still do the competing plants. The
majority of work on a best-known is the plow,
increased food
modern farm. They are the ancient implement
production used to pull implements that was upgraded in
allowing large that till the ground, plant 1838 by a man named
numbers of seed, or perform a John Deere. Plows are
people to pursue number of other tasks. actually used less
other types of Tillage implements frequently in the United
States today, with offset

Plus ,

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 the most common type of can be used to remove
seeder, called a planter, weeds from between
spaces seeds out equally in rows, or to
long rows that are usually spread fertilizer and pesti
two to three feet apart. cides. Hay balers can be
Some crops are planted by used to tightly package
drills, which put out much grass or alfalfa into a
more seed in rows less than storable form for the
a foot apart, blanketing the winter
months.Modern irrigation
field with crops . also relies on a great deal
Transplanters fully or of machinery. A variety of
Special Interest Story partially automate the task engines, pumps and other
Headline of transplanting seedlings to specialized gear is used
the field. With the to provide water quickly
40% of today’s widespread use of plastic and in high volumes to
mulch, plastic mulch layers, large areas of land.
global population transplanters, and seeders Similar types of
works in lay down long rows equipment can be used to
of plastic and plant through deliver fertilizers and pes
agriculture, them automatically. After ticides. Besides the
making it the planting, other implements tractor, a variety of

DID YOU KNOW?

Technology: The in robotics and sensing  as old as farming itself. “I 
technologies looks set to   believe, by moving to a 
Future of disrupt modern  robotic agricultural system, 
Agriculture practice. Twenty­first century  we can make crop production
robotics and sensing  significantly more efficient 
A technological revolution  technologies have the  and more sustainable,” says 
in farming led by advances  potential to solve problems  Simon Blackmore, an 

Example of machines :

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Bonirob (pictured) — a car­
sized robot originally developed
by a team of scientists including
those at Osnabrück University 
of Applied Sciences in Germany
— can measure other indicators
of soil quality using various 
sensors and modules, including 
BIOTECHNOLOGY HELP
The techniques that use living
organisms to make or modify a
product. Some conventional
biotechnologies are well-
accepted, such
as fermentation for bread or
alcohol production. Another
example is plant and animal
breeding to create varieties with
better characteristics or
increased yields.
Modern biotechnologies chan
ge the genetic code of living
organisms using a technique
called genetic modification.
These technologies have been
widely adopted in industrial
a moisture sensor.
applications such
as enzymeproduction. The
possibility of patenting genetic
modifications can attract
investment in agricultural
research. But it also tends to
concentrate ownership of
resources, drive up costs,
inhibit independent research,
and undermine local farming
practices such as seed-saving
that are especially important in
developing countries. It could
also mean new liabilities, for
example if a genetically
modified plant spreads to
nearby farms.
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Inside Story Headline
AGRICULTURAL and environmentascience
ENGINEER?
.
Agricultural engineers
work in the context of
agricultural production
and processing and the
management of natural
resources. Their
specialties include
power systems and
machinery design;
structures

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pesticides or fertilizers aren’t
necessary, crop diversity is
encouraged, and precipitation
provides irrigation water”

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