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As potato growers contend with drought, water constraints, rising input costs and unpredictable weather, PepsiCo is putting practical knowledge-sharing at the heart of its efforts to protect one of the world’s largest potato supply chains
Biocontrols, biofertilisers and biopesticides have an opportunity to give growers more options as climate and input risks increase. But speakers at the World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit stressed that the next phase of the biologicals opportunity is less...
A tough investment climate is being countered by public support and growing interest from retailers and other supply-chain businesses, believes Dr Belinda Clarke from the UK-based innovation ecosystem builder Agri-TechE – a shift that could help...
Salt-tolerant crops and technologies are increasingly ready to scale, but weak demand, fragmented value chains and difficult business models are preventing saline agriculture from reaching its potential, according to new research from Vrije Universiteit...
Tilda has expanded its sustainable basmati rice programme across northern India to almost 4,000 farms covering 15,000 hectares, after three years of data showed significant reductions in methane emissions, water use and fertiliser inputs. The company...
Gene editing, biologicals and AI generated excitement at World Agri-Tech in London. But the bigger message was decidedly pragmatic: the industry has plenty of innovation, now it needs the regulation, finance and distribution models to get it onto farms
Tesco has become the anchor investor in Henry Dimbleby’s £100m Bramble food innovation fund, signalling growing retailer confidence that healthier, more sustainable food represents a commercial opportunity. But while booming demand for GLP-1 drugs...
The UK government has pledged to preserve regulatory freedoms for agricultural biotechnology under its proposed sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) agreement with the EU, as farming minister Stephen Morgan sought to reassure agri-tech businesses that...
EXORT technology uses naturally occurring plant microRNAs to fine-tune crop processes, with Syngenta claiming yield improvements of 5-10% in extensive field trials and a first commercial launch planned for Latin America in 2027
Biographica and Hudson River Biotechnology are teaming up to take difficult crop traits from genetic target discovery through genome editing to commercial-ready plants, starting with tomato. Now they are inviting breeders to bring them the trait...