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Around 10 percent of strawberry production goes to waste as it doesn’t meet the quality standards required for retail. To address this, biotechnology company MycoNourish has gained £150k of funding to develop its first two products that harnesses the power of beneficial microbes.
“Necessity is the mother of invention,” according to Greek philosopher Plato, and never have we had more need of invention and innovation than in the middle of a global pandemic. Agri-TechE has long been an advocate of “open innovation” and this is fast-tracking a response to the challenges created by COVID-19
The COVID-19 crisis has shown the fragility of food supply chains and accelerated the labour challenges for the agricultural industry – generating a sense of urgency for new methods of automating agricultural processes.
To help suppliers provide more accurate predictions of crop yield Mantle Labs, in collaboration with Agri-EPI Centre, is offering its unique ‘Geobotanics’ platform to retailers and others involved in the supply chain, free-of-charge for a period of three months.
LettUs Grow, an indoor farming technology provider, is fast-tracking the building of two vertical farm modules in the city of Bristol during the COVID-19 outbreak.
The Innovate vertical farm will produce fresh food in 10 days and will donate the fresh produce to those in need in Bristol
3D printing of masks and ventilator parts and repurposing facilities to make hand sanitiser gel for the NHS in Norfolk and beyond are some of the UEA projects
Barclays Eagle Labs has launched a support site ‘resilience hub’ to provide start-ups with virtual events, content and tools in these challenging times.
Satellite Applications Catapult is compiling details of support available for SMEs, start-ups, and other small businesses working in the space industry.
Demand for remote field monitoring has increased following the Coronavirus outbreak reports Pessl Instruments, the company behind METOS® brand wireless, solar powered monitoring systems.
Optimising the seed rate (t/ha of input seed) is a crucial first step in efficient potato crop production, because it controls the plant, stem and tuber population. Crop tuber populations need to be matched to the target yield to achieve the required net yield. To help achieve this Crop4Sight has launched the UK’s first dynamic seed rate tool for planning potato crops. It generates target benchmarks for stem and tuber populations from the very start of the season.
Peas and beans are rich sources of plant protein, gluten-free and contain a starch with the potential to reverse diabetes when consumed as part of prescriptive diet, but the crops are challenging to grow well. To help more farmers increase yields and gain value from these pulses, the PGRO runs two Yield Enhancement Networks (YEN) to share best practice.
Cloud cover distorts satellite imagery, leading to gaps in data that hinder results. ‘ClearSky’, a technique being developed by scientists at the University of Hertfordshire uses radar data to fill the gaps caused by cloud cover. Agrimetrics plans to pre-link ClearSky to more than a billion agricultural data points.