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World Service,10 May 2005,23 mins

High-tech crops

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How a supercomputer is being used to predict crop growth throughout world. Number-crunching know-how is being used to help feed the world. Also in the programme why fingerprint recognition could replace keys and the books available through mobile phone in Japan.

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