How Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Invests in Agtech
Its overall mission for the sector is to help smallholder farmers increase their productivity in a sustainable way. It aims to do so through investment in research & development (R&D), ...
‘Self-driving tractors, robotics and GM crops’ – one man’s vision for farming in Lincolnshire
Self-driving tractors and robotics will replace traditional farm labourers and genetically modified crops will find their way on to more farms. Read more
Agriculture Lost, Then Found
It’s not the only way. Today’s technology together with a new perspective on “how things are done” can bring flavor and nutrition back to our fruits and vegetables. That technology ...
Farming preschool would teach kids how to grow their own food
Teaching children how to grow and harvest their own food, as well as how to interact with animals, could help kids improve their social skills through teamwork, encourage self-esteem, and ...
Innovation Rocks The Cotswolds
A brand new event highlighting and celebrating the Cotswolds’ finest innovators, inventors and entrepreneurs and providing the opportunity for a selected group to pitch their business plans and innovations to ...
Enter the techie farmer and precision farming
In Tarlac, an initial batch of 18 small-scale rice farmers are taking part in the pilot run of a program that intends to popularize the use of information and communication ...
One startup’s plan to grow more crops: put the germs back in
Ultimately, the company says it collected data on over 40,000 symbiotic microbes from 36,000 samples of more than 700 plant species. It then used machine learning techniques to identify important ...
Would you use ‘Facetime for Farmers’?
AgriSync, which works similarly to other two-way video apps like FaceTime, Google Hangouts and Skype, enables farmers to communicate with their advisors as soon as a problem occurs and when ...
Rt Hon Elizabeth Truss MP visits Rural Innovation Centre
The increasing range of practically-based RAU courses, together with the partnership of the university with GFirst Gloucestershire Local Enterprise partnership (LEP) were discussed as examples of how this can be ...
Salinas hopes to turn farm workers’ children into computer scientists
With one foot in its fields and another edged toward Silicon Valley, Salinas is trying to reboot itself as the agricultural technology center of California. It hopes to turn the ...