WORLD FOOD SUPPLIES TO BE INCREASED BY SPACE TECHNOLOGY
June 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN UNLIKELY boost to hard-pressed global food supplies is to come from space, namely the European Union's (EU) global positioning navigational service Galileo, which should be operational by 2013. The Euro 3.6 billion system will help all kinds of businesses - and food production is one: farmers can integrate its pinpoint accurate geographical positioning technology with tractors, ploughs, seeders, fertilisers and harvesters, enabling them to accurately sub-divide fields to the nearest centimetre, increasing yields and better matching supply to ...
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