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Parastoo Farajpoor

Author: Parastoo Farajpoor

Parastoo Farajpoor is a Ph.D. candidate in the Digital Agriculture Lab at the University of California, Davis, focusing on sustainable agriculture through advanced technology applications. Her research on the precision estimation of nutrient status in vineyards using cutting-edge sensing technologies and spectral modeling.

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Empowering Sustainable Agriculture with AI-Powered Leaf Nutrient Sensing on AWS

The Challenge of Nutrient Management in Agriculture For decades, fertilizers have been essential to producing healthy crops and maintaining yield. Yet in many orchards today, especially those growing pistachios, grapes, and almonds across California, the benefits of extra fertilizer are beginning to level off. Growers often apply more nutrients than the plants actually need because […]