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Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, is inviting startups and small- to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with innovative agritech solutions to apply for the India Australia Rapid Innovation Startup Expansion (RISE) Accelerator, a program designed to support businesses aiming to expand between the two countries. Commencing in October, the Climate Smart Agritech cohort of the RISE Accelerator […]
Empire State Development (ESD) and Cornell University’s Center for Regional Economic Advancement (CREA) today announced the 20 finalists selected to take part in year six of Grow-NY, a business competition focused on enhancing the emerging food, beverage, and agriculture innovation cluster in upstate New York. Winning companies will be required to make a positive economic […]
Providing sub-Saharan smallholders with a cost-effective alternative to expensive artificial nitrogen fertiliser has come a step closer for British agri-biotech company Legume Technology, following the award of a grant from The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO). The Nottinghamshire company, which has been working on microbial biofertilisers […]
Leaf, the unified farm data API and largest farm data processing platform, announced the close of a $11.3 million Series A round, led by Spero Ventures. The funding round included participation from all existing investors. Andrew Parker has joined Leaf’s Board of Directors. In 2023, United States farmers were collecting data on 72% of all […]
Redefine Meat™, the pioneer of ‘new-meat’ – an emerging category of premium-quality meat made from plants – announces new retail collaborations with nationwide retailers in the Netherlands, France, Switzerland and Germany as it continues its aggressive expansion across European retail. The new retailers include internationally known Coop in Switzerland; the leading Dutch retailer Jumbo – […]
PheroSyn – an innovative agricultural technology company specializing in the development of insect pheromones for sustainable crop protection – announced today that it has secured investment from Tall Grass Ventures (TGV), a leading Canadian venture capital firm focused on early-stage agri-food tech startups. This funding will accelerate PheroSyn’s mission to replace harmful chemical pesticides with […]
The Malaysian CropLife & Public Health Association (MCPA), a national association representing the plant science and public health industries of Malaysia, calls for action against illegal pesticides after the tragic poisoning incidents of two young boys and the hospitalization of a teenager upon consumption of rat poison-laced snacks, as reported in the media. These heartbreaking […]
FoodTech company revyve has cracked the code to removing animal-derived texturizers and additives from burgers and impart a meaty bite. Introducing a new world of food texture, revyve is launching its high-performance egg-replacement ingredient at IFT FIRST 2024. Revyve delivers the sensory experience that consumers expect in their foods. The clean, minimally processed egg alternative […]
On a fresh mission to offer health-conscious consumers guilt-free indulgence in ice creams and sorbets, Better Juice, Ltd. expanded its innovative sugar-reduction technology to lower the sugar loads in fruit sorbets. This will grant manufacturers new opportunities to give their products a better-for-you upgrade. The FoodTech start-up will showcase the reduced sugar sorbet at the […]
India’s fertilizer company, Deepak Fertilisers and Petrochemicals Corporation, has successfully reduced their time to collate, verify, and analyze agronomic data by 70%, from six months to under one month using the Agmatix platform. The Agmatix field trial software and data analysis system has helped Deepak detect and prevent errors in their product development trials, resulting […]
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