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  • Apple transportation by means of drones to develop into actuality in Himachal’s tribal Kinnaur district

    By PTI

    SHIMLA: Apple growers in distant and inaccessible areas of the tribal Kinnaur district are in for a brand new revolution as transportation of apples by means of drone know-how would quickly develop into a actuality.

    Successful trials of transportation of 20 kg apple packing containers have been carried out in Rohan Kanda village in Nichar block of Kinnaur district and the packing containers have been transported for a distance of 12 km from an orchard to the principle street in six minutes by the Vegrow apple procurement company in collaboration with Skyeair.

    The trial for lifting apple packing containers was carried out to examine the feasibility, battery and rotation time and assess the load lifted in a single rotation in November and the fee side is being labored on now.

    “Our target is to lift about 200 kg in one go to make the transportation economical for the apple growers and we are hopeful that the fruitful model would be implemented by the next season,” stated incharge of Vegrow, Dinesh Negi.

    “Financial feasibility is being chalked out and the administration would facilitate the company for getting the licence and other requirements but the deal is between the private company and the orchardists,” stated Deputy Commissioner Kinnaur, Abid Hussain Sadiq.

    “There is no road connectivity to the twin villages of Rohan Kanda and Chota Kanda in Nichar block of Kinnaur and the apple boxes are carried on foot and a maximum of three boxes (90kg) are brought to the road in one trip. It takes over four hours for one round due to hilly terrain and a coolie (labourer) can take maximum of three rounds in a day,” stated an apple grower from Nichar Manoj Mehta, including as the method is time consuming the freshness of the fruit is compromised and labour scarcity is one other drawback.

    Successful trial has rekindled hope of well timed and secure transportation particularly at time of early snow and talks are occurring with the non-public firm to repair the costs and efforts are afoot to made transportation of 200 kg of apple packing containers at one time to cut back the fee, stated Vice-Pradhan of Gram Panchayat Nichar, Jagdev.

    The transfer would assist in lowering the price of transportation apart from saving time as bringing apples from hilly terrain to the principle street for loading in vehicles is an costly, time-consuming and hard job as these orchards should not linked by roads, he instructed PTI.

    Apple is grown on 10,924 hectares within the district.

    The apple transportation from the decrease areas of Kinnaur begins in August-end however the bulk of transportation takes place from October 15 to November 15.

    This yr, 40.83 lakh packing containers have been produced as in comparison with 24.33 lakh packing containers in 2021 whereas the variety of packing containers was 36.64 lakh in 2020, 28.43 lakh in 2019 and 30.83 lakh in 2018.

    One field incorporates 20 kg of apple, officers within the Kinnaur horticulture division stated.

    The value for transporting 5 kg weight for one kilometre has been fastened at Rs 45 and for 10 Kg at Rs 55 by the Himachal Pradesh State Electronics Development Corporation Ltd (HPSEDC) for presidency departments, stated Managing Director of the company Mukesh Repaswal.

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi has additionally just lately talked concerning the profitable path of apple transportation by means of drones through the “Mann Ki Baat” programme and stated that scrumptious apples of Kinnaur would attain the market quickly as they might be lifted by means of drones.

    The Himachal Pradesh authorities had given consent to Drone Policy 2022 with the target of propagating Drone-enabled know-how for heralding financial prosperity and creating employment avenues in June this yr.

    In the agriculture and horticulture sector, drones can be used to assemble farm and crop-specific knowledge to evaluate farm productiveness, assess crop injury, spray of fertilizers on crops and cut back misapplication of sources, officers maintained.

    SHIMLA: Apple growers in distant and inaccessible areas of the tribal Kinnaur district are in for a brand new revolution as transportation of apples by means of drone know-how would quickly develop into a actuality.

    Successful trials of transportation of 20 kg apple packing containers have been carried out in Rohan Kanda village in Nichar block of Kinnaur district and the packing containers have been transported for a distance of 12 km from an orchard to the principle street in six minutes by the Vegrow apple procurement company in collaboration with Skyeair.

    The trial for lifting apple packing containers was carried out to examine the feasibility, battery and rotation time and assess the load lifted in a single rotation in November and the fee side is being labored on now.

    “Our target is to lift about 200 kg in one go to make the transportation economical for the apple growers and we are hopeful that the fruitful model would be implemented by the next season,” stated incharge of Vegrow, Dinesh Negi.

    “Financial feasibility is being chalked out and the administration would facilitate the company for getting the licence and other requirements but the deal is between the private company and the orchardists,” stated Deputy Commissioner Kinnaur, Abid Hussain Sadiq.

    “There is no road connectivity to the twin villages of Rohan Kanda and Chota Kanda in Nichar block of Kinnaur and the apple boxes are carried on foot and a maximum of three boxes (90kg) are brought to the road in one trip. It takes over four hours for one round due to hilly terrain and a coolie (labourer) can take maximum of three rounds in a day,” stated an apple grower from Nichar Manoj Mehta, including as the method is time consuming the freshness of the fruit is compromised and labour scarcity is one other drawback.

    Successful trial has rekindled hope of well timed and secure transportation particularly at time of early snow and talks are occurring with the non-public firm to repair the costs and efforts are afoot to made transportation of 200 kg of apple packing containers at one time to cut back the fee, stated Vice-Pradhan of Gram Panchayat Nichar, Jagdev.

    The transfer would assist in lowering the price of transportation apart from saving time as bringing apples from hilly terrain to the principle street for loading in vehicles is an costly, time-consuming and hard job as these orchards should not linked by roads, he instructed PTI.

    Apple is grown on 10,924 hectares within the district.

    The apple transportation from the decrease areas of Kinnaur begins in August-end however the bulk of transportation takes place from October 15 to November 15.

    This yr, 40.83 lakh packing containers have been produced as in comparison with 24.33 lakh packing containers in 2021 whereas the variety of packing containers was 36.64 lakh in 2020, 28.43 lakh in 2019 and 30.83 lakh in 2018.

    One field incorporates 20 kg of apple, officers within the Kinnaur horticulture division stated.

    The value for transporting 5 kg weight for one kilometre has been fastened at Rs 45 and for 10 Kg at Rs 55 by the Himachal Pradesh State Electronics Development Corporation Ltd (HPSEDC) for presidency departments, stated Managing Director of the company Mukesh Repaswal.

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi has additionally just lately talked concerning the profitable path of apple transportation by means of drones through the “Mann Ki Baat” programme and stated that scrumptious apples of Kinnaur would attain the market quickly as they might be lifted by means of drones.

    The Himachal Pradesh authorities had given consent to Drone Policy 2022 with the target of propagating Drone-enabled know-how for heralding financial prosperity and creating employment avenues in June this yr.

    In the agriculture and horticulture sector, drones can be used to assemble farm and crop-specific knowledge to evaluate farm productiveness, assess crop injury, spray of fertilizers on crops and cut back misapplication of sources, officers maintained.

  • Amazon faucets AI, ML to maintain dangerous apples from its cabinets

    NEW DELHI :

    Amazon India plans to make use of superior pc imaginative and prescient, machine studying (ML) and synthetic intelligence (AI) applied sciences to handle high quality assurance for fruits, greens and different farm produce offered on its platform.

    In an interview, Rajeev Rastogi, vice-president of ML at Amazon India, stated the corporate has developed pc imaginative and prescient packages that acknowledge defects similar to cuts and scratches on tomatoes and onions to determine once they have gone dangerous.

    The system makes use of a mixture of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and visible transformer (ViTs) algorithms. CNNs are deep studying algorithms that may take picture enter and assign significance to varied features of that picture, whereas ViTs are specialised variations of transformer algorithms, which might weigh the importance of every a part of information it will get.

    “In our grocery enterprise, produce high quality is the single-most essential buyer enter and the primary driver of repeat buy,” Rastogi said. “Currently, quality is processed manually, which doesn’t really scale. It’s also very error-prone, is costly and doesn’t have high repeatability. So, we developed a computer vision system for grading fresh produce quality by analysing images of produce,” he stated.

    Amazon makes use of pc imaginative and prescient methods to detect cuts, cracks and strain damages and extra. The tech has been deployed for tomatoes and onions now in Amazon’s retailer, however Rastogi stated it’s constructing an AI-enabled machine, Auto Grader, to routinely grade produce transferring on a conveyor belt.

    “It will enhance the standard and consistency of the produce whereas decreasing the grading price by virtually 78% as in comparison with guide grading,” he stated.

    “In future, we additionally need to use infrared sensors to detect attributes like sweetness and ripeness, which we can not detect in RGB (pink, inexperienced and blue) pictures which are captured by your conventional pc imaginative and prescient algorithms,” Rastogi said. He noted that infrared can help avoid “destructive methods” of high quality assurance, like how ripeness and sweetness usually require an individual to truly eat a fruit or vegetable.

    “A near-infrared picture can be very completely different for a candy versus not candy product. Because the extent of sugar can be completely different, and the near-infrared signature can be completely different,” he stated.

    The system is deployed in shops in India, together with some pilot initiatives in Europe as properly. Rastogi admitted that the system is at an early stage and it is going to be some time earlier than the corporate may place timelines on precisely when it is going to be rolled out at scale. However, he stated that the system is at above 90% accuracy when it comes to precision to find defects. “It varies from one produce to a different. Like we’ve significantly better outcomes for tomatoes and we are able to do it with excessive precision. Our numbers are a bit decrease for onions and we’re engaged on (bettering that).”

    The issue in figuring out the standard of recent produce can even differ from one product to the subsequent, he stated. “Most defects that we’re (proper now) could be visually detected by a human. Anything that may be visually detected, I feel, could be simply detected by pc imaginative and prescient as properly,” he stated.

    In future, Amazon may use a system like this to categorise and categorize merchandise to acknowledge the type of product supplied by a vendor. For occasion, if a vendor is providing a selected sort of tomatoes, the system may categorize what that tomato ought to appear to be and determine upfront whether or not the suitable product is being delivered.

    The firm has additionally needed to tailor the system to Indian produce high quality. As the standard of recent produce in India isn’t the identical as counterparts in Western international locations, the strategy to figuring out high quality has to vary as properly. “A tomato in India just isn’t the identical as a tomato within the US. So, you possibly can’t simply say that you’ll have the identical strategy to coping with tomatoes and onions in each nation. The nature of the product may very well be fairly completely different, due to farming practices,” Rastogi stated.

    In concept, the corporate may additionally convey the Auto Grader to the front-end, the place clients may simply open the Amazon app and detect the standard of a vegetable or fruit by themselves.

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  • Apple’s bang offer is getting up to 63 thousand rupees in iPhone 12

    Apple has announced a great discount on its latest smartphone iPhone 12. The actual price of this phone is Rs 119900 but under the new trade-in scheme of the company, you can get a discount of up to 63 thousand rupees on the iPhone 12. Apple has announced a huge discount on its most expensive smartphone iPhone 12. According to the company, you can buy iPhone 12 under trade-in scheme at an attractive discount of up to 63 thousand rupees. Let me tell you the actual price of iPhone 12 is Rs 1,19,900. On which you can get a maximum discount of 63 thousand rupees under the trade-in scheme of the company.

    According to Apple, in the trade-in scheme you have to give your old smartphone. Apple has also shared the details of the exchange price of the popular smartphone on its website, which you can check at apple.com/in/shop/trade-in. According to Apple, in addition to the new iPhone 12, apart from Apple, you can also give the smartphone of another company. How to buy new iPhone 12 under Apple’s trade-in scheme

    When you buy a new iPhone 12 phone under the trade-in scheme. So you have to share some information about your old smartphone. Like you have to tell the IMEI code of your old smartphone. Along with this, you will also have to give information about the condition of the smartphone and its storage capacity. When you will answer all these questions, then after that you can book iPhone 12 by cutting the fixed price of your smartphone.

  • Here are Apple’s promo videos for the AirPods Max

    Yesterday Apple shocked the world and unveiled its much-rumored over-the-ear headphones, the AirPods Max. Their price is also quite shocking, at $549 in the US, €600 or £549 in Europe, and a whopping INR 59,900 in India – the latter currently translates into $812, by the way.

    While you’ll have to decide for yourself if these prices are in any way justified, especially given the $350-$400 competition in the mass market, these are unlike anything else in the space, first and foremost, because of design. Once again Apple has managed to create something that’s both unique looking and instantly recognizable – and the latter trait will undoubtedly make everyone know what these are, despite the lack of overt branding.If you want to see what Apple is doing to sell these, here are two promo videos its marketing department came up with. The first one is an over two minute introduction with explanations of the main features, while the second, shorter promo, is more akin to a TV ad.

  • Apple’s ‘One More Thing’ event tonight: What to expect

    Tonight Apple is set to hold perhaps its last event of 2020. About 10 days back, the Cupertino-based tech giant sent out invites for its One More Thing event. It is widely expected that Apple will announce its first computers that will be powered by its own Arm-based silicon chips.

    Multiple reports have suggested that new MacBooks featuring Apple’s own processors. A report by Bloomberg suggests that Apple may unveil three new models — 13-inch MacBook Air, 13-inch MacBook Pro and a 16-inch MacBook Pro. All three laptops will feature the new silicon chips. However, it is expected that beyond the processor, there won’t be any other design change to the MacBook line up.

    Ming-Chi Kuo, noted Apple analyst, however, said that Apple may unveil just a 13-inch MacBook Pro at the event. Kuo, earlier said that a new MacBook Air powered by Apple’s own chip will arrive at the end of this year or early in 2021.
    An earlier report has suggested that by using its own silicon chips, the cost of MacBooks may very well be reduced. A report by The New York Times had revealed that Apple spends close to $3.4 billion on Intel processors.

    Do keep in mind that Apple — by launching its own processor — isn’t really severing ties completely with Intel. The company will continue to have Intel-powered MacBooks in its line up, at least for the foreseeable future.

    As far as its own processors are concerned, it is rumoured that they may be called A14X. The processor is expected to be really powerful with eight high-performance cores and four energy-efficient cores.