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Silal, Abu Dhabi’s new fresh food and agritech company, is to invest AED 200 million to upgrade 80 local farms. The company is talking about farming in extreme conditions at an Agri-Tech Express Event
Trials have shown baby leaf salad crops germinate a day faster following treatment with Zayndu’s ‘cold plasma’ technology which creates a powerful disinfectant with no residues.
“Farming is often at the sharp end of unpredictable weather events. Varieties that can provide growers with agronomic performance and still serve the market requirements will gradually come to the fore,” says Stephen Belcher, Principal Technical Officer of PGRO, discussing the reasons why varieties are included in the 2022 Descriptive Lists (DL) for pulse crops.
Bayer is to work with Microsoft to build a new cloud-based set of digital tools and data science solutions for use in agriculture and related industries to support sustainability across value chains.
Robotic mushroom picking, strawberry yield forecasting and new bio-based materials to drive down the carbon footprint of car manufacturing are three new spin-outs to emerge from Ceres Agri-Tech, a partnership which includes six Agri-TechE members.
Breedr has announced that it will shortly be launching a crowdfunding campaign as part of its next round of investment.
Earlier this year Breedr announced a new risk-free way to buy and sell livestock, based on lifetime animal data and weights. The Breedr live trading platform means producers can buy and sell through the free app with certainty, with a price guarantee in case of any differential in the weight of weaned calves and stores between farms. Sellers are also ensured payment within 72 hours of collection.
Stable, is changing the way businesses manage volatile commodity prices, enabling millions of businesses to manage the risk in a simple and effective way.
Outfield discussed their orchard management system at REAP; they have now raised £750,000 in a first funding round.
The agri-tech ecosystem is maturing. Data analytics provider YAGRO, which featured as an early-stage company in the REAP Start-up Showcase 2015 and has just announced that it has joined the Frontier group of companies.
Laser weeding is going to be a game-changer in precision agriculture according to Jānis Jaško, CEO of WeedBot Ltd. The company, originally from Latvia has demonstrated its prototype and plans to launch a commercial unit in Spring 2022.
Arable has won the 2021 “IoT Monitoring Solution of the Year” prize in the AgTech Breakthrough Awards, which recognize the best agri-tech companies, products, and services around the globe.
Arable, a member of Agri-TechE, is based in California, its products include a portable weatherstation, Arable Mark 2, which provides localised weather and plant health status in real time via a mobile phone.
Fotenix and Small Robot Company are part of a collaboration devising a new method for the precision application of fungicides and biopesticides.