ADM & InnovaFeed’s insect protein partnership examined
The Paris-based startup will supply insect protein to ADM’s pet foods division, to create “high-quality nutritional” products with “a significantly lower carbon footprint and land requirement.”
The Paris-based startup will supply insect protein to ADM’s pet foods division, to create “high-quality nutritional” products with “a significantly lower carbon footprint and land requirement.”
Online farmer marketplaces like DeHaat, Bijak, and Animall were among India’s big winners when it came to venture investment last year.
The fund will offer discounted loans to growers who implement regenerative farming practices to improve soil health and nitrogen management.
The Argentine startup will use the funds to strengthen its e-commerce and fintech offerings, as well as for growing its footprint in Brazil.
In a sign of the times, an agrifood exec was invited to deliver the opening keynote at Singapore’s annual tech festival.
The Patna-based startup says it serves 650,000 smallholders and collaborates with 3,000 rural micro-entrepreneurs.
It could file its prospectus – seeking to raise a reported $10 billion at a $60 billion valuation – as soon as next week.
There’s nothing new about agrifood corporates investing directly in strategic technologies – but it is now a mainstream approach.
Data can now flow back and forth between FarmLogs’ farm-level view of an operation, and Bushel’s post-farm gate appreciation of the supply chain.
He also said that the agribusiness giant doesn’t expect China’s domestic livestock feed industry to become self-sufficient anytime soon.
“Five startups in one” is how Indigo CEO David Perry describes the company, which he says is facing its biggest challenge yet: moving to its next phase of execution.
The Korean chemical giant’s Singapore agribiz hub will “pioneer solutions for the world food supply chain through innovation, not just plain food trading,” its CEO tells AFN.
CEO Erik Fyrwald previously told AFN that Syngenta’s takeover by ChemChina “gives us the freedom for increased investment around seeds and crop protection.”
Agrocorp, which recently made a groundbreaking $12m blockchain wheat trade, will use the funds to “ensure a continuous flow of food from farmers to end-consumers.”
Olam set up a “war room” of top execs to tackle Covid-19’s immediate impact on its business. But it’s counting on digitization as a longer term fix.
The Singapore-based agribusiness became the first-ever recipient of a ‘Digital Loan’ based on Boston Consulting Group’s digital maturity index last year.
The region’s smallholders are increasingly active users of mobile tech, according to a new study – but adoption of solutions developed specifically for them remains low.
The facility is the first of its kind for the company and the most technically advanced, costing roughly $100 million for a company that has had a rough ride on its share price valuation over the last few years.
This episode is perhaps a tad awkward as I interview my boss Rob Leclerc, founding partner of AgFunder, but Rob was as insightful as ever, sharing his thoughts on working in and around the agriculture sector for the past decade.
Xarvio is now pulling data from Arable’s hyperlocal weather data sensors to help farmers improve the timing and efficacy of their fungicide applications, which will feed into BASF’s new business model plans for farmers.
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