MANGALURU, India, March 8 (Reuters) - Ganapathi Bhat goes to work most mornings carrying a homemade contraption consisting of a small motor, a rudimentary seat and a set of wheels - all expertly ...

Farming is all too often underappreciated. While we take the massive tractors and harvesters of the modern age for granted, there are still some fields where mechanization and its efficiencies are a ...

An Indian farmer has invented a "tree scooter" to help him scale palm trees and harvest betel nuts. One scooter can harvest 300 areca palms in a day, more than three times the amount of the ...

A young man from Vietnam's Mekong Delta has gone viral for his lightning-fast ability to scale tall areca palm trees. Within 40 seconds, he can climb, harvest a full bunch of areca nuts, and return to ...