Crop management decision support systems are specialized tools for farmers that reduce the riskiness of revenue streams, especially valuable for use under the current climate changes that impact agricultural productivity. Unfortunately, small farmers in India, who could greatly benefit from these tools, do not have access to them. In this paper, we model an individual greenhouse as a Markov Decision Process (MDP) and adapt Li and Li (2019)'s Follow the Weighted Leader (FWL) online learning algorithm to offer crop planning advice. We successfully produce utility-preserving cropping pattern suggestions in simulations. When we compare against an offline planning algorithm, we achieve the same cumulative revenue with greatly reduced runtime.

Last summer, the Dutch national television made a small report on a large organic arable farm on the young sea clay in the province of Flevoland. Men and women were working in organic parsley, which was due to be harvested mechanically the next day. It still had to be manually stripped of weeds, such as polygonum. The question was whether field robots are already capable of taking over this unpleasant and labour-intensive (i.e. The farm's owner shares his thoughts about a robot taking over these chores in his fields in front of the camera.

Enter a world of ancient Chinese temples, take a hike at The Great Wall and discover what lies beyond the majestic mountain ranges in "Minecraft: Console Edition Chinese Mythology Mash-Up Pack." The newest pack for 4J Studios' console version of "Minecraft" is set to bring a ton of new content to gamers this October. The mash-up, which centers on ancient China, features a pre-made world that does not only speak of the ancient Chinese architecture, but also the mythology of the dragons that is embedded in the country's history. In a blog post on the official PlayStation website, "Minecraft" product marketing manager Jeff Rivait revealed that the "Chinese Mythology Mash-Up Pack" for "Minecraft: Console Editions" comes with 41 skins and 13 music tracks. Rivait also noted that players, who are enjoying the "Battle" mini-game they launched in June, will like how this mash-up also comes with a special map just for the mini-game.