Market Watch October 14, 2019 Since ancient times China has been an agricultural country, with both huge demand for and large-scale production of a wide range of agricultural products, writes Shuqing Chen at Synced. China’s per capita arable land area however is far less...
Market Watch October 7, 2019 Farmers around the world are facing the urgent question of how to sustainably feed a global population expected to reach 9.7 billion by 2050 — and the answer, in part, might be found nestled among the cornstalks and soybeans...
Market Watch August 31, 2019 Syngenta Seeds has announced the launch of a new digital platform to help farmers maximize profit potential through data-driven seed recommendations, reports Yahoo Finance. The NK Seed Analyzer combines artificial intelligence, two decades of agronomic information and a simple...
Drones | UAVs August 15, 2019 A recent article by CIO Australia outlines how the rapid development and deployment of technology-based systems are doing more than create new businesses, they are creating completely new industries around agriculture productivity, traceability, and decision support. Several of the technologies...
Market Watch August 13, 2019 Kenyan agri-tech startup Shamba Records has built a blockchain-based platform that uses artificial intelligence (AI) and big data to collect farmers’ harvest records, process payments and issue credit, writes Tom Jackson at Disrupt Africa. Founded in 2017 and already used...
Market Watch August 5, 2019 In Africa, crop pests and disease have been hampering agriculture productivity for decades, writes Amindeh Blaise Atabong at Quartz Africa. Africa farmers lose an estimated 49% of expected total crop yield per annum — the highest in the world...
Market Watch August 5, 2019 The advancements in technology are compelling businesses to adapt new innovative technological tools and solution to support exponential growth, reports Analytics Insight. In particular, the era of intelligent automation is bringing about a variety of changes in a business....
Market Watch July 22, 2019 While artificial intelligence is commonly employed within customer service, manufacturing, and retail, one sector that may not immediately spring to mind when one thinks of AI is agriculture, according to an article on Thomas Insights. Nevertheless, farmers are increasingly...
Market Watch July 20, 2019 The global artificial intelligence (AI) in agriculture market is expected to reach approximately US$2,075mn by 2024, at a CAGR of above 21% between 2018 and 2024, with the Asia-Pacific region demonstrating a lucrative growth, according to Zion Market Research...
Analytics July 17, 2019 The agriculture industry now is experiencing rapid growth and adopting advanced technologies in order to bolster the overall yield of the crops, writes Vivek Kumar at Analytics Insight. Accessibility of a large number of equipment and state-of-the-art technologies like...
Market Watch July 9, 2019 SoilEssentials, the precision farming solutions pioneers, based in Angus, Scotland has announced an exciting new artificial intelligence platform aimed at safeguarding food production and the environment, writes Bethan Sexton at Deadline News. SKAi, the SoilEssentials KORE Artificial Intelligence project, is...
Drones | UAVs June 10, 2019 In past articles I took the opportunity to introduce new companies that have entered the Brazilian agricultural market. These companies often bring a technology advantage to the sector, resulting in an increase in productivity for our farmers. For example,...
Market Watch May 28, 2019 The 10th edition of “Berries of Ukraine-2019: Fresh & Frozen” held in Kyiv, impressed the Fructidor team by the new start-ups willing to implement Artificial Intelligence technologies to the market. Algo Human, one of Ukrainian start-ups representing robotization approach,...
Digital Farming May 22, 2019 IBM is hoping Watson can improve the future of food and crop years as it launched a global version of its cognitive tools for agriculture, ZDNet reports. Watson Decision Platform for Agriculture aims to combine predictive analytics, artificial intelligence, weather data,...
Digital Farming May 15, 2019 Already established on North America, Europe and Asia, Google’s artificial intelligence research program is now being rolled out in Africa: Ghana and Google have cooperated to open the first African AI laboratory, according to an article at Leaders League. The...
Market Watch May 14, 2019 Crop loss is devastating for farmers. With increasing ecological volatility, it's also a fact of life, writes Greg Nichols at ZDNet.com. But a host of new techniques known collectively as "precision agriculture" or "agricultural intelligence" can help. One company,...
Market Watch May 9, 2019 In August 2017, iUNU announced it had secured $6 million in venture capital funding from big-name investors – including Reddit’s Alexis Ohanian and football great Joe Montana to name a few – to officially launch its new greenhouse artificial...
Drones | UAVs May 1, 2019 PrecisionHawk today announced PrecisionAnalytics Agriculture, an aerial mapping, modeling, and agronomy platform purpose-built for precision agriculture, according to a Business Wire post on APNews.com. Using PrecisionAnalytics, business leaders in agriculture can apply the latest generation of analytics tools and artificial intelligence...
Market Watch April 29, 2019 It’s only been within the last few years that AI has made its debut in the agriculture sector, reports Greenhouse Grower. We’re now seeing a rapid roll-out of the technology thanks to unprecedented investment in this area. In the...
Market Watch April 18, 2019 Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) Corp. said Thursday it plans to start a trial of farming support service using drones and artificial intelligence technology, writes Editor Mu Xuequan for XinhuaNet.com. According to the telecommunications company, it will conduct the trial...