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EFITA newsletter / 902 - European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture, Food and the Environment
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European conference Biomass Power On
4-5 March 2020 - STOCKHOLM - Sweden
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Call for Applications for the online course on Farm Data Management, Sharing and Services for Agriculture Development (publication too late bu anyway interesting)
Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) and Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations together with the Pan African Farmers’ Organisation (PAFO) are pleased to call for applications for a new online course “Farm Data Management, Sharing and Services for Agriculture Development”.
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What Has Been the Impact of ICT In Agriculture in Africa? By K. Afrane Okese
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What are Africa’s Greatest Challenges in Agriculture?
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French ag-tech startup: Kapsera
About the company: Created in 2018, Kapsera bridges the gap between sustainability and productivity in agriculture using state-of-the-art biodegradable formulations.
What is the product? A unique and disruptive encapsulation technology that enables production of high performance microbial-based biofertilizers and biopesticides.
How it works? The solid capsule of porous algae extract based on a liquid heart: the capsule protects it from contact with the outside but keeps the exchanges (e.g., breathing, nutrition, and elimination of waste), taking the microorganisms to the ground still active and operational. The contents and composition of the capsule can be adapted to different contacts (e.g., tropical climate, types of microorganisms, types of application).
What solutions does it offer? Increases the effectiveness of bio-inputs (e.g., dose, storage time) thus reducing the cost of use.
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Future farming magazine and many others
Welcome to the digital magazine section of Misset International, which covers the brands All About Feed, Dairy Global, Future Farming, Pig Progress and Poultry World. Misset International is part of Misset Uitgeverij B.V., specialising in the agriculture industry.
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Spain: Spains’s ec2ce raises seed funding to crunch numbers for predictive ag, by Jessica Pothering (ES)
Software companies are cropping up all over the place, with platforms that offer farmers and agricultural companies better data and insights on their fields and business operations. Many use sophisticated image analysis from satellites or drones, or cull field-level data from connected sensors.
Spanish startup ec2ce is taking a different approach: mathematics.
“Producers, especially in high-value crops, have invested a lot in data gathering. They have a lot of data. But they don’t know what to do with it. They need mathematical insights,” Pedro Carrillo, CEO of ec2ce, tells AFN.
See agfundernews.com
We are the Predictive Agriculture
Our combination of innovation, use of technology and strategic planning puts ec2ce at the forefront of AI applied to agriculture and food supply chains.
We have developed an A.I. platform that allows us to support the decision-making process in many different fields and fulfill each of our customers’ needs.
Sophisticated machine-learning methodologies, proprietary association rules, and fuzzy logic algorithms are embedded into the platform. It is then able to select which features and algorithms should be used in each case, creating a standarized tool that is easily customized for real-world applications.
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Asia: India’s Fasal raises $1.6m seed funding to build out precision ag across SE Asia, by Richard Martyn-Hemphill
Fasal, a precision agriculture platform, has just raised $1.6 million of seed funding from Omnivore and Wavemaker Partners, AFN can confirm.
Other investors participating in the round include Mount Parker Ventures and Animoca from Hong Kong, as well as Mistletoe from Japan, via their Gastrotope accelerator. Existing investors Zeroth, an AI-ML accelerator, and Artesian Ventures from Australia also participated in the round. (IC Universal Legal’s Chennai team, led by Sameena Chatrapathy, managed the transaction.)
See agfundernews.com
Grow more and Grow better with Fasal
How it works?
1. Sense: Fasal monitors critical parameters 24x7x365 from your farm and uploads it to Fasal cloud platform.
2. Analyse: The data is then analysed and presented, making your crop's health accessible to you anytime, anywhere on any device for data-driven decision making.
3. Predict: Farm level data is then used by our prediction engine to predict the ideal growth conditions, resource requirements including irrigation, sprays, fertigation, and other preventive measures.
4. Act: Farmer gets notified on his device and acts accordingly.
See fasal.co
Kenya: Twiga’s $30m Goldman Sachs-led Series B towers over African agri-food tech like a friendly giraffe, by Richard Martyn-Hemphill
Kenya’s mobile money market has reached a point where the value of cell phone-based transactions is equivalent to half of the country’s GDP. It’s spurred on by a young, growing population that benefits from ever cheaper smartphones and cellular data plans as rural internet coverage improves and incomes rise.
Enhanced mobile connectivity has implications for fixing Kenya’s disjointed, informal food system, and Nairobi-based Twiga Foods has been an early mover in a widening push to digitize and streamline the country’s supply chain.
See agfundernews.com
Plan before you plant: How precision ag helps farmers plant smarter
With summer’s end, the savviest farmers plan to harvest more than crops alone. They will also be harvesting troves of valuable data to help them better plan for the planting season ahead.
See futurefarming.com
‘Far less drama’ than expected with SwarmFarm robot
Cotton grower Jamie Grant from the Australian district Jimbour is the first farmer that uses a commercial SwarmFarm robot with a WEED-IT system on his farm. It has a boom of 9 meters and a 1000 litre tank. Jamie is ‘pleasantly surprised’ with the robot. “We had far less drama than I expected.”
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Future Farming 4: focus on autonomous technology
The latest issue of Future Farming is now available for you to read online. Issue 4 of 2019 focuses on autonomous technology; all you need to know about GPS, field robots, autonomous tractors and more in 1 issue!
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Naïo Dino robot able to weed between lettuce
French company Naïo Technologies has equipped its Dino robot with an inter-plant weed control solution. It is composed of a crop detection system below the robot that uses deep learning technologies. Thanks to prior learning and training, the machine is able to recognise and distinguish lettuces whatever their colour, variety and stage of growth.
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Premium foliar fertilizer from used alkaline batteries
Finnish cleantech company Tracegrow produces zinc and manganese foliar fertilizer from recycled metals.
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Twiga links farmers and vendors to fair, trusted, modern markets
Since 2014, Twiga has been bridging gaps in food and market security through an organised platform for an efficient, fair, transparent and formal marketplace.
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Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania: We just invested in the fastest-growing agtech company and farmer network in the world, by Michael Dean
“You could say that small-scale agriculture is the biggest industry of Earth. It’s a half billion people; it’s the entire world’s supply chain; it’s the origin or commodities markets, and nobody’s really built a platform on that.”
Well no-one had until Wefarm did. The peer-to-peer smallholder farmer network has just surpassed 2 million farmer members on its platform. To put that into context, Farmers Business Network, the biggest farmer network in the US that’s valued close to $1 billion and counts Google, Kleiner Perkins and Temasek as investors, has about 8,000, according to a recent radio profile of the startup.
Wefarm uses machine learning technology to connect small-scale farmers to crowdsourced information by enabling them to share techniques and advice on anything from how to battle a disease to how to increase their income. Farmers can ask questions in any language and messaging is free of charge.
See agfundernews.com
The world’s largest farmer-to-farmer digital network
See wefarm.co
Good old days(???): Fertility by Edvard Munch (1902)
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Morocco energy boss: We need to build electricity bridges between Europe
and Africa
The solar thermal complex at Noor Ouarzazate in the Atlas mountains is
at the heart of Morocco’s renewable energy drive, producing over 580MW
of electricity. Mustapha Bakhouri explains the country’s plans to develop
its renewable energy programme and build energy connections with Europe.
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euractiv.com
Europe’s largest floating solar plant opens in France
Sorry—organic farming is actually worse for climate change
The practice cuts greenhouse-gas emissions only if you ignore the inconvenient
fact that it requires a lot more land.
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technologyreview.com
Changing Europe and Germany (November 1989 – November 2019)
2017: Russia is headed for the top spot in wheat exports
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