Charles Veys, Founder and CEO of Fotenix, discusses the challenges that time poses in agriculture, ahead of the REAP conference
Itaka International will be sharing how their successful introduction of natural products is improving plant resistance in innovative vegetable farming. Through reviewing crop production systems Itaka aim to reduce predisposition to common threats on vegetable crops while also decreasing the dependence to agrochemicals.
Advances in diagnostics for soils, crops and livestock can enable early rapid interventions and hopefully preventing disease or maintaining health. But tests need to be simple, cheap and reliable – false positives or the wrong sensitivity can lead to devastating and costly consequences.