An experiment with chickpea seeds shows that plants can grow on the Moon despite the challenges. This finding suggests the possibility of extraterrestrial crops that would support long-duration space missions. A recent scientific study has investigated how seeds would develop on the surface of the Moon. The result has been a resounding success, as the…
It allows farmers to fulfill the obligation to maintain the Digital Field Notebook by sending photos of invoices and audio messages via WhatsApp. It will also alleviate the problem of lack of margins due to excessive middlemen by offering factory product offers and purchase of production from big brands. Farmers from all over Spain are…
New York University’s Tandon team has achieved a 20 per cent increase in the system’s salt removal rate while reducing its energy demand by optimising fluid flow rates. These results are shown in a paper published in Cell Reports Physical Science , the NYU Tandon team led by Dr André Taylor , professor of chemical…
Within the Gen4Olives project, in which the Italian company Agricolus and the Spanish company BrioAgro work together, to better understand the evolution in recent months and the change that the month of December has brought, we show three graphs: 1) rainfall, 2) leaf wetting, but the most significant is 3) soil moisture. This graph reflects…
Every month, we analyze the evolution of the dryland farms of the GEN4OLIVES project, located in Estepa. In addition to evaluating with technical criteria how the crop evolves and the indicators that we monitor, we have observed that the abundant rains of the second half of October have provided greater humidity to the soil, as…
September has brought some much-needed relief from an unrelenting summer of extreme temperatures, marking the beginning of autumn. This transitional period has earned the nickname “veroño” due to the high temperatures, both minimum and maximum, that have prevailed. The region of Andalusia, already affected by a prolonged drought, has been even more affected by these…
This year has been a difficult spring for rainfed olive groves, but despite this, the Gen4olives project continues to evolve, with great difficulties that have begun to manifest themselves during the month of April, traditionally rainy but which this year has not brought a single drop of rain to the south of the province of…
What soil moisture is present in rainfed olive groves is the question that the Horizon 2020 GEN4OLIVE project is going to answer, where the Spanish company BrioAgro, together with the Italian company Agricolus, is working in consortium. One of the aspects they will measure, with the maximum number of indicators to draw conclusions, is the…