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In Ontario, a fully automated greenhouse allows lettuce to be grown and harvested with virtually no human intervention鈥攁 first in Canada.
Haven Greens had to invest $50 million to make it happen. But the result is striking: the company can operate with just five employees in the greenhouse, whereas it would have required more than 100 pickers using the traditional method.
Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Que., residents have a new spot to do their groceries. After the suburb's only grocery store closed for the second time, B Factory, a locally owned beeswax products shop that had been on the verge of bankruptcy, expanded its space to include a small grocery section called Mon March茅 Local.
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麻豆传媒网站 Bioresource Engineering Professor Michael Ngadi called for urgent action to address the challenges facing stallholder farmers in Nigeria at a recent public lecture at the Michael Okpara University of Agriculture Umudike (MOUAU).
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Congratulations to two plant science students in Professor聽Mehran Dastmalchi's lab, who received awards for their presentations at two recent conferences!
