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Agriculture
Putting a tomato in the fridge does something to it that taking it out again will not undo
A tomato that tastes of nothing is usually not a bad variety. It is a fruit that was picked early, chilled below a threshold it cannot recover from, and warmed up again. Here is the post-harvest biology behind it.
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Agriculture
How precision agriculture boosts crop yield
Precision agriculture treats a field as many small plots rather than one uniform block, giving each patch exactly the water, seed and nutrients it needs. Here is how the technology works and why yields rise while costs fall.
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