Alkesh Sharma / Emirates Business Imagine a UAE farmer sitting in the cabin of his high-tech tractor and keeping tabs on swathes of fields by the click of the mouse. By monitoring a couple of computer screens, the ‘big data’ helps him figure out the exact locations in the farmlands where his worker had missed a seed, the zones where …

ABU DHABI / WAM On the sidelines of Christine Lagarde’s, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), first official visit to the UAE, the Ministry of Finance (MoF) has stressed that the UAE has attained a prestigious status in terms of its relations with international financial institutions, specifically with the IMF. UAE joined IMF as a member under the …

ABU DHABI / WAM Dr. Amal Abdullah Al Qubaisi, Speaker of Federal National Council, FNC, has received Ilyas Umakhanov Deputy Chairmen of the Federation Council of Russia and the accompanying delegation, at FNC headquarters in Abu Dhabi. During the meeting, they discussed ways to strengthen friendship and cooperation between the UAE and Russia in various fields, especially in the parliamentary …