In the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is taking initiatives to protect the vulnerable or marginalised farmers that are on the receiving end of the after-effect of the pandemic
Agriculture
&ever uses automation solutions for indoor vertical farming
The indoor vertical farming company &ever is using automation and machine learning technologies to grow healthier and better tasting crops
Arrigoni’s solutions for greater plant uniformity and better quality of fruit
Arrigoni, international producer of agrotextiles for agriculture, has unveiled PRISMA thermo-reflective agrotextiles and BIORETE insect screens solutions, particularly for melon and watermelon
Agritech intelligence firm Taranis raises US$30mn
Tel Aviv’s agricultural intelligence company Taranis-Visual Ltd has raised US$30mn in a series C round led by Vertex Growth, Asian conglomerate The Kuok Group, through its venture capital arm K3 Ventures and Japanese multinational Hitachi Group
COVID-19 risks to global food security
Andre Laperriere, executive director of Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN), has highlighted the impact of coronavirus on global food security