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)...
India-based BharatRohan and environmental consultancy firm Kosher Climate have joined hands to promote sustainable rice cultivation through the implementation of an advanced water-saving and carbon-reducing irrigation system.
A new report from agriculture drone firm DJI Agriculture has highlighted how multiple crops essential to Asia’s agriculture sector stand to reap benefits from advancements in drone technology, as government acceptance steadily increases in the region.
China-based agritech firm Heilongjiang Huida Technology Co Ltd (Huida Tech) has inked a partnership with Agri Fly, top dealer of the firm’s drones, to install advanced agriculture technologies in Vietnamese farms.
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.
A new high-tech facility in Narrabri, New South Wales (NSW), is seeking to strengthen Australia’s food security by focusing on agtech to increase crop resilience and boost the productivity of farmers.
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.
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.
Using poultry litter for bio-gas production could lead to significant reductions in methane and ammonia emissions, resulting in a decrease of over 50% in key environmental indicators such as climate change, terrestrial acidification and freshwater eutrophication,...
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...
Oishii, a vertical farm growing Japanese omakase strawberries with 2-3x the sweetness of conventional US-grown strawberries, has closed $50m in Series A funding led by SPARX Group to scale its business for mass market consumption.
