Atlanta, United States – KORE, a global provider in Internet of Things solutions, and provider of IoT connectivity, solutions and analytics, has announced its role in providing scalable, global IoT connectivity to Syngenta to power a large-scale biodiversity project. (more…)
April 25, 2023
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
In efforts to enhance agricultural productivity, improve farmers’ profits, and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the sector regionwide, an Asian Productivity Organisation (APO) announced the designation of the National Agriculture and Food Research Organisation (NARO) of Japan as its new centre of excellence on climate-smart agriculture (COE on CSA). This is a result of the long-term partnership between the two institutions in disseminating know-how in the focus area of the new COE. (more…)
March 31, 2023
Posted by: Shriya Raban
Lisbon, Portugal – Ceres Imaging, a data analytics company that builds precision agriculture solutions to reduce risk and improve sustainability outcomes, is announcing its expansion into Portugal and Spain.
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March 14, 2023
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
Windsor, Ontario, Canada. 25 January 2023 – The University of Windsor (UWindsor) and TELUS have announced launch of 5G connected campus and commercial lab to support research with 5G technology and establish the university as a go-to centre for innovation. TELUS, a communications technology company, is investing $5 million (€4.59 million) as part of a multi-year agreement that began in 2020 to fuel the development of new applications for 5G technology. The collaboration will not only support multidisciplinary research in the agriculture, manufacturing, and connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) sectors, it will transform UWindsor campuses to enhance teaching, innovation and collaboration. (more…)
February 3, 2023
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
Alexandria, United States – Agrology, a seed-stage climate technology start-up, has announced that the company is one of six partners awarded approximately $5M in funding from the USDA’s Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities initiative. Together the partners will further develop the capacity for growers to quantify climate-smart practices. Agrology was chosen as the partner to quantify regenerative practices in real time due to their MRV platform, ground-truth measurements, and monitoring of greenhouse gasses and soil carbon respiration. (more…)
January 9, 2023
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
Redlands, United States – Extreme weather events linked to climate change are increasingly threatening the security of food and water supply across the globe. Africa, already struggling with low agricultural production and heavily degraded soils, is disproportionally affected. To help support government and nonprofit organisations on the continent address these challenges, Esri, the global provider in location intelligence, has collaborated with Microsoft on a sustainable agriculture development initiative in Africa. (more…)
November 16, 2022
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
Ingersoll Rand Inc, a global provider of mission-critical flow creation and industrial solutions, has acquired Dosatron International L.L.C. and Dilution Solutions L.L.C. (collectively, “Dosatron International”) for an all-cash upfront purchase price of approximately $90 million, with additional future consideration of up to $15 million. (more…)
October 7, 2022
Posted by: Shriya Raban
A Dorset project has been awarded funding to conduct cutting edge research with the wireless technology provider. (more…)
July 14, 2022
Posted by: Shriya Raban
SAN FRANCISCO. 28 April 2022 – Arable and Bayer announced a partnership to accelerate digital transformation in agriculture through the expanded use of Arable’s field-level sensing and monitoring platform, which collects real-time intelligence on weather, plant and soil conditions in a single solution. Together, Bayer and Arable aim to increase the understanding of how hyper-local weather conditions impact seed performance and to provide growers with top-performing products tailored to their specific location. (more…)
April 29, 2022
Posted by: Shriya Raban
Guangzhou, China. 27 Dec 2021 – On 22 December, XAG Annual Conference 2021 was held in Guangzhou, China with the theme “Step into Agrifuture”, which launched a series of agricultural innovations to empower farmers with more sophisticated autonomous solutions. Five new products, including the XAG P50 and P100 Agricultural Drone, XAG M500 and M2000 Remote Sensing Drone, and the updated XAG R150 Unmanned Ground Vehicle, are released in China and will be available for global sales in 2022. (more…)
December 28, 2021
Posted by: Anasia D'mello