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The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (known – even in English – by its Spanish acronym CIMMYT for Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo) is a non-profit research-for-development organization that develops improved varieties of wheat and maize with the aim of contributing to food security, and innovates agricultural practices to help boost production, prevent ...
The 2002 farm bill (P.L. 107-171, Sec. 6402) directed the USDA to provide grants and to assist in the establishment of Agriculture Innovation Centers that provide information, training and direct assistance to agricultural producers in the production, processing, development and marketing of value-added agricultural commodities and products.
The majority of those topics are related to safety and (cyber)security of automated, connected, agricultural machinery for road circulation and working in the field, to achieve a sustainable, circular and carbon-free agriculture, as well as to trade issues, homologation, etc. CEMA participates to different European Commission expert groups. [2]
The Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity & Innovation (MAPI) (formerly the Machinery and Allied Products Institute) is a non-profit manufacturing leadership network that offers benchmarking, professional development, and research services.
Power for agricultural machinery was originally supplied by ox or other domesticated animals. With the invention of steam power came the portable engine , and later the traction engine , a multipurpose, mobile energy source that was the ground-crawling cousin to the steam locomotive .
Industrial agriculture is a form of modern farming that refers to the industrialized production of crops and animals and animal products like eggs or milk.The methods of industrial agriculture include innovation in agricultural machinery and farming methods, genetic technology, techniques for achieving economies of scale in production, the creation of new markets for consumption, the ...
Agricultural engineering, also known as agricultural and biosystems engineering, is the field of study and application of engineering science and designs principles for agriculture purposes, combining the various disciplines of mechanical, civil, electrical, food science, environmental, software, and chemical engineering to improve the efficiency of farms and agribusiness enterprises [1] as ...
ICAR-CIAE was established on 15 February 1976 at Bhopal, with a view to provide a research platform for Agricultural Engineering. [4] The early mandate was to address the areas of farm machinery, post harvest technology and energy in agriculture.