Simon Pearson
Director of Lincoln Institute for Agri-Food Technology (LIAT)
“Are robot highways the future? The COVID-19 crisis has shown the fragility of food supply chains. It has also accelerated the labour challenges for the agricultural industry predicted for the UK post-BREXIT. Both these elements have generated interest and a sense of urgency for new methods of automating agricultural processes – but how far is this from the farm-gate?”
The Emerging Agri-Tech session at REAP 2020 is kindly sponsored by EIT Food.
