Agritech

Deals/Contracts/Partnerships

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  Samsara Launches Integrated Solution with John Deere to Digitize Farming Operations

  Q2(Apr-May-Jun), 2022

• 2

   An American Industrial technology company has selected LTTS as its engineering services partner for mid of life product support for a suite of product lines catering to the agriculture segment. 

  Q4(Oct-Nov-Dec), 2021

• 3

  AKKA collaborates with Futura Gaïa on developing vertical farms solutions. One example is the development of a tailored automated guided vehicle (AGV) solution to move the systems between the production racks and the harvesting area.

  Q2(Apr-May-Jun), 2021

EIIR Provider Solutions/Capabalities

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  Trimble to Acquire Bilberry to Extend its Selective Spraying Capabilities for Sustainable Farming

  Q3(Jul-Aug-Sep), 2022

• 2

  Strawberry test field for IAV harvesting robot in Gifhorn

  Q2(Apr-May-Jun), 2022

EIIR Buyer GIC/R&D Best Practices/Solutions

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  Bayer showcases how to jointly tackle the challenges of food security and climate change. Bayer showcased hybrid wheat, carbon farming, corp protection and fieldview its digital farming platform.

  Q4(Oct-Nov-Dec), 2022

• 2

  Agrochemical firm, Dhanuka Agritech sets up new R&D centre in Palwal, Haryana, India with an investment of Rs 10 crore.

  Q4(Oct-Nov-Dec), 2022

• 3

  Bayer announces the expansion of its Vegetable Seeds R&D Product Design Center in San Nicolás, Spain.

  Q4(Oct-Nov-Dec), 2021

• 4

  Cell-based technology company TurtleTree Labs has announced the opening of its new R&D facility located in West Sacramento, California. TurtleTree uses innovative cell-based technologies to create sustainable food and dairy. The company created a proprietary technology that uses mammalian cells to produce milk, with no animals needed.

  Q4(Oct-Nov-Dec), 2021

• 5

  Bayer, Microsoft Enter into Strategic Partnership to Optimize and Advance Digital Capabilities for Food, Feed, Fuel, Fiber Value Chain. Bayer agronomic expertise and leading digital farming platform Climate Fieldview, combined with Microsoft Azure, form the foundation for new digital solutions to advance agriculture and adjacent industries

  Q4(Oct-Nov-Dec), 2021

• 6

  EmbraerX and Pyka Team Up to Accelerate the Future of Autonomous Agriculture Airplanes

  Q3(Jul-Aug-Sep), 2021

• 7

  Syngenta to build $230-million R&D center in China. Center at Nanjing will cover advanced research areas across the agriculture value chain.

  Q1(Jan-feb-Mar), 2021

• 8

  The Climate Corporation, Bayer’s digital farming arm, has announced the commercial launch of its industry-leading digital farming platform, Climate FieldView, in South Africa.

  Q1(Jan-feb-Mar), 2021

• 9

  Bosch and BASF establish joint venture for digital technologies in the agricultural sector

  Q4(Oct-Nov-Dec), 2020

• 10

  German indoor vertical farm &ever to establish R&D center in Singapore.

  Q4(Oct-Nov-Dec), 2020

• 11

  Nestlé acquires healthy meal startup Freshly for $1.5 billion. Trend: Investment in healthy meal category will grow.

  Q4(Oct-Nov-Dec), 2020

Other News

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  Vertical Future - the fastest-growing UK-based vertical farming technology and R&D business - has entered into a collaboration with Vertical Farm Systems (VFS), a new company established to work on the Singapore Advanced Vertical Farming (SAVE) project.

  Q4(Oct-Nov-Dec), 2022

• 2

  Trimble Ventures Invests in Monarch Tractor—an Electric, Autonomous Smart Tractor Platform for Sustainable Farming

  Q4(Oct-Nov-Dec), 2021

• 3

  Signify Acquiring Fluence from OSRAM for $272 Million to strengthen Agriculture lighting growth platform

  Q4(Oct-Nov-Dec), 2021

• 4

  Ericsson and John Deere partner to boost 5G innovation in agribusiness

  Q3(Jul-Aug-Sep), 2021

• 5

  Israeli agtech company Prospera that develops computer vision technologies to monitor and predict plant health and development is acquired by US manufacturing company Valmont Industries, a maker of linear irrigation equipment and windmill support structures, for approximately $300 million.

  Q2(Apr-May-Jun), 2021

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  Embraer announces 19 new orders of Ipanema agricultural aircraft.

  Q1(Jan-feb-Mar), 2021

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  Singapore emerges as food tech hub, thanks to state support. Singapore looks to overcome its lack of arable land and roughly triple its food self-sufficiency to 30% by 2030. Urban farming and artificial meat are seen as promising means.

  Q1(Jan-feb-Mar), 2021

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  Nokia and Vi CSR deploy SmartAgri solution to enhance productivity of 50,000 farmers in India.

  Q4(Oct-Nov-Dec), 2020

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