Africa’s smallholder farmers need drip irrigation and improved post-harvest storage, but investors are more interested in AI, CEA, blockchain and cultivated meat, says Prosper Chikomo.
FLORA will invest in early-stage agrifood startups via the launch of its $80 million fund backed by Israel’s Kibbutzim community.
Fresh from the recent acquisition of precision irrigation startup Tule, CropX explains how it balances M&A with internal development for agtech solutions.
A new Inmarsat report notes “improved environmental outcomes” including water conservation from leveraging satellite IoT tools for agriculture.
The deal with Tule brings an additional layer of plant data and a foothold in the California speciality crops market to the table.
We cannot let this recent rainfall lull us into a false sense of complacency around water management and risk our long-term water supply.
Moleaer will use its Series C funding to increase the availability of its proprietary nanobubble equipment and address water shortages.
The Israeli company will further develop its smart irrigation tech API for smallholder farmers facing the impacts of climate change.
The chief technology officer is leading the charge to make precision irrigation available to women smallholders worldwide.
The woman-led fund has raised $5.7 million to help the country’s ag sector embrace technology, improve climate resilience, and empower women.
Water scarcity could soon become the ‘new normal’ in many parts of the US, imperilling crop cultivation. But agtech has solutions.
The Singapore sovereign fund’s acquisition of a majority stake in the Israeli company is just the latest sign of its increasingly hard focus on agrifoodtech.
Customized technology in areas like irrigation and soil mapping can decrease wasted resources and streamline time-consuming, complex operations.
The acquisition will add 1,800 weather stations to the company’s existing European network to support hyper-local weather data for farmers.
The Israeli startup is hoping the acquisition will accelerate its expansion into the US breadbasket as agtech veterans predict more consolidation in 2020.
Fasal, a precision agriculture platform, has just raised $1.6 million of seed funding from Omnivore and Wavemaker Partners, AFN can confirm.
I caught up with Aric Olsen, president of Jain USA, are his most recent acquisition of ETWater, a weather data analytics and sprinkler control company using machine learning to measure the evapotranspiration rate of grass.
WaterBit’s autonomous irrigation solution takes into account the stage of the plant, soil conditions and weather.
After several successful trials in citrus, apple, and almond orchards in Spain and Israel, Saturas cofounder and CEO Anat Halgoa Solomon told AgFunderNews that will the company use the new funds to bring its first products to market along with continuing development of a modified version of the company’s original sensor for use on vineyards.
Smallholder farmers have limited cash flow to be able to purchase new agtech, so SunCulture, and other agtech startups operating in the African region, have had to get creative in how they sell their wares.
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