Bayer Crop Science will provide the seeds of the Delisher cherry plum tomato for cultivation
Bayer Crop Science will partner with Pinduoduo for its annual Smart Agriculture Competition. Tomato has been chosen for this year’s competition. For the competition, Bayer Crop Science will provide the seeds of the Delisher cherry plum tomato for cultivation. The company will also offer its crop protection expertise, environmental monitoring and disease management.
To be held till March 2022, teams from around the globe will take part in the Smart Agriculture Competition to develop ’one-click planting’ models for growing tomatoes, using nutrition science, algorithms, sensor technology and intelligent greenhouses. The objective is to boost the yield and nutritional content of tomatoes while ensuring the process is cost-effective and environmentally sustainable.
As China’s largest agriculture platform, Pinduoduo spearheaded the creation of the Smart Agriculture Competition as a way to gather the top minds in agronomy and computer science to develop technology that can help smallholder farmers and spur agricultural modernisation.
Pinduoduo is organising the competition together with the China Agricultural University and Zhejiang University. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and Wageningen University & Research are serving as technical advisers.
“Through the Smart Agriculture Competition, we hope to interest more young scientific talent in agriculture so that they can apply their talents to helping farmers,” said Andre Zhu, Senior VP, Pinduoduo.
