Bayer partners with Adroit Robotics for digital citrus monitoring

Producers registered in the programme will be able to exchange points for Adroit’s technology through the Orbia marketplace

Bayer announced a partnership with agtech Adroit Robotics. Specialised in artificial intelligence, the startup developed the LeafSense technology, capable of collecting data from the orchard to help fruit growers make more assertive decisions in the field. The partnership, which began to be built in 2020, will benefit users of Impulso Bayer, the company’s loyalty and relationship programme. Producers registered in the programme will be able to exchange points for Adroit’s technology through the Orbia marketplace.

Since 2020, the technology has been tested in pilots spread across 14 citrus farms with more than 70 hectares each, totalling more than 1,000 hectares and 4 million monitored trees.

Among the other features made available by LeafSense is the possibility of monitoring the ripening period of the fruits, quantifying the ones that are in the ground and checking if there are any failures in the orchard to replace the trees, in addition to supporting the detection of pests and diseases in the early stage and on a large scale.