Produce wastage during the lockdowns sees startups mobilising to aid farmers and vendors
The Hindu
With lockdowns in place across India, these homegrown startups leverage AI, IoT, data science and more to offer innovative solutions to fresh produce vendors and farmers, preventing wastage and revenue loss
Mahabaleshwar’s farmers harvest strawberries in February. In Himachal Pradesh, apple farmers fill their baskets with glossy red, orange and green globes to be shipped across the country. This year, gripped by the second wave of the pandemic and strict lockdowns, vendors are struggling to reach customers. (Subscribe to our Today's Cache newsletter for a quick snapshot of top 5 tech stories. Click to subscribe for free.)![](/newspic/picid-1269750-20250212004700.jpg)
In a study published in the journal Mammalian Biology on December 23, 2024, researchers compared the calls of Asian elephants based on their age, sex, and behaviour. They found the duration of trumpets remained fairly consistent across all age classes for both male and female Asian elephants but roars and roar-rumbles got longer with age.
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The STS-63 mission, more popularly dubbed as the near-Mir mission, was a successful mission that spanned from February 3-11, 1995. A mission that served as a dress rehearsal for later missions that would rendezvous and dock with Mir, STS-63 reeled off a number of firsts. A.S.Ganesh tries and lists them out for you…