The AgTech Trends 2023 survey unveiled by the Yield quashes the idea that farmers are instinctively wary of adopting digital solutions. Many simply still grapple with deriving actionable insights from their data.
It is no secret that global agtech investments were hit in 2023. But Fiona Choppe-Magal from Cukierman Investment House stresses the reasons to be cheerful in the coming year.
In 2024, the rise of gen AI, the impact of digital twins on field trials, and the evolution of cloud-based technologies are expected to continue to revolutionise the agtech landscape.
A new European Union project aims to make digital farming accessible to thousands of small farmers in the region. AgTechNavigator caught up with project coordinator Dionysios Solomos to learn more.
Krishna Kumar, co-founder and CEO of intelligence provider Cropin, shares his agri-food predictions for 2024, among them a growing convergence between healthcare and agtech sectors.
While regenerative agriculture associated with strategies for reducing negative environmental impacts of ‘conventional agriculture,’ research has found that some strategies are better than others in improving soil productivity and, more importantly, maintaining...
While artificial intelligence (AI) and digital tools have made progress in shielding agri-food systems against climate change, issues with bias and a lack of standards and data quality persist.
In the second edition of our Look Who's Funding series, we assess how BASF Venture Capital is seeking to revolutionise agriculture and improve overall sustainability through advanced technological solutions.
Gathering crop information via a raft of satellite remote sensing innovations has been touted as a key agtech success strategy, but what are its constraints and how can they be best overcome?
In our first Innovation Insider monthly feature we are shining the spotlight on China and assessing how the opportunities and challenges when comes to adopting innovative technologies to enhance agricultural productivity, improve food security and promote...
While educating farmers on new technologies is much talked-about, Beakbook co-founder Giovanni Montefiori believes tech providers ‘levelling up’ their offerings is a more pressing matter.
Lithuanian insect producer Divaks has discussed its plans to produce over 10,000 tonnes of insect-based fertiliser annually by 2030, amid growing interest in the potential of using frass, produced via insect bioconversion, to improve sustainability across...
Venture capitalist (VC) and investment funds are crucial to helping agtech start-ups scale and fulfil their potential. But what are they looking for and what qualities should fledging firms possess? In the first of our AgTech Investor Portfolio Profiles,...
In the first of our features looking at how major MNCs are making waves in the global ag-tech start-up space, which shine the spotlight on PepsiCo and its Greenhouse Accelerator Programme with initiatives spanning IoT, pest control, eco-fertilizers and...
Nestlé is piloting a weather insurance scheme utilising satellite-based data and technology to provide financial protection for Indonesian farmers that are part of its supply chain.
India’s burgeoning agtech innovations could hold the key to transforming the country’s agri-food systems into sustainable enterprises, according to Parshottam Rupala, Union Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying.
Pollinator insects have always been vital for agriculture to flourish and to feed the world and their decline in recent years threatens the food system. But AI, IOT hardware and robotics could offer an artificial solution to a natural problem.
A ground-breaking system built on a combination of CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) and Cas9 (CRISPR-associated protein 9) could significantly improve crop enhancement and food security through its genome-editing (GE)...
New innovations to improve forecasting closer to coastal regions is urgently needed to safeguard fishing and aquaculture in the event of a strong El Niño.
The Japanese government has approved the applications of over 50 companies looking to implement agritech-focused improvements to their businesses, offering support and tax incentives in a bid to hit its national Green Food System sustainability goals...
Indian FMCG major BL Agro has committed US$62.5mn in investment to purchase Leads Connect, one of the country’s most comprehensive agricultural technology firms, in a bid to increase its presence in the burgeoning sector.
Experts say more research is needed to address the digital divide and other ethical concerns as the prevalence of livestock farming becomes more widespread.
Hyperspectral remote sensing images from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be used to develop a ‘more rigorous and scientific’ health assessment model to aid precision agriculture strategies, say researchers.
Aquatech is a “small but high-potential part” of New Zealand’s agtech system that could cement the country’s status in international markets, according to Simon Hearsey, the New Zealand Trade Commissioner to Germany, Sweden and Denmark.
Engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) could be a holistic solution for sustainability in crop production and environmental stewardship, according to researchers in China, Australia and Pakistan.
Innovation is needed to improve monitoring on farms and enhanced nutritional diagnostics are essential to get a better understanding of the relationship between regenerative agriculture (RA) and nutritional quality.
Intelligent cold chain systems could play a greater role in reducing food loss and waste through the use of real-time data exchange and dynamic environmental parameter control, but widespread integration of Internet of Things (IoT) and blockchain technology...
A new digital tool called the Digital Agricultural Knowledge and Information System (DAKIS) has been developed to assist farmers in making decisions that promote sustainable and diverse agriculture.
Using machine learning (ML) to monitor crop disease in real time may boost growth and development in sub-Saharan Africa’s agricultural sector, where rop diseases have long been a significant threat to agricultural productivity, resulting in annual yield...