Agri-tech innovation offers response to global challenges
A number of international players announced initiatives at Agri-TechE’s REAP 2020 conference.
10/11/2020
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A number of international players announced initiatives at Agri-TechE’s REAP 2020 conference.
“With Agri-TechE, we saw the potential to create a viable relationship that would accelerate the development of solutions, and ultimately, solve the issues our growers are facing,” Western Growers
“South Korea can be a base camp to enable UK companies to develop technology for Asian countries,” says Professor Lee of Chonnam National University.
We want to do business, Oost NL is bringing a delegation to REAP to meet UK producers & agri-tech innovators and introduce the Wageningen UR-Foodvalley Region of the Netherlands. Opportunity to ‘Meet the Dutch’ ahead of REAP2020.
“Carbon credits could provide an income stream for farmers based on societal value of carbon’, says David R Montgomery, keynote speaker at REAP 2020.
Agri-TechE was approached by Deloitte to help promote the Australian Gravity Challenge: Adopting Space Technologies Down on Earth, an innovation programme facilitating access to satellite data. Agrimetrics helped to set the challenge, see them in the REAP2020 TechHub.
Nearly 50 per cent of US crop and livestock production is located within 500 miles of St Louis so this is a good launch point for companies looking to engage with US food production.
Mark Sutherland, CMO of Missouri Partnership says: “We see many synergies with the membership of Agri-TechE and so are keen to broker one-on-one meetings and create networking opportunities to support innovation and productivity within the two clusters.” The partnership has a stand in the REAP2020 TechHub
Food Agility CRC is a $150million innovation hub that is creating new digital technologies for the Australian agrifood industry. Many Agri-techE members participated in the summit and wider mission. Talk to Breedr, Outfield, Yagro and Rothamsted at REAP 2020.
Home to just over 40% of Canada’s cultivated farmland, the scale of production of cereals and oilseeds is simply staggering.
The 2019 HARVEST programme introduced Agri-TechE members Hummingbird Technologies, PBD Biotech and TIMAC Agro to Saskatoon and a chance to visit Ag in Motion – the largest outdoor agricultural expo in Western Canada. Hummingbird is the TechHub at REAP2020
“South Korea can be a base camp to enable UK companies to develop technology for Asian countries,” Professor Kyeong-Hwan Lee, of Chonnam National University, South Korea, says ahead of REAP 2020. A delegation of companies are attending and Professor Lee is establishing a science park
Increased productivity with reduced environmental impacts may sound like the holy grail of farming, but our keynote speaker at REAP, Dr Zhenling Cui of the
Maria “Pilu” Giraudo is a fifth generation farmer from central Argentina and she was recently awarded the prestigious Kleckner Award, an annual recognition given by Global Farmer Network to a farmer who shows leadership and vision. She spoke at REAP2017