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Carbon Farming, Company News, Sustainability, World

Diverse agribusiness will utilise Regrow’s platform for the soybean programme

Regrow Ag, the Agriculture Resilience Platform provider, and Bartlett, a Savage Company announced their partnership to advance sustainability commitments. The Regrow platform supports rigorous Scope 3 emissions analysis, and the ability to create actionable carbon reduction plans and track environmental outcomes on the farm level. Bartlett will use Regrow’s solution to determine county-level emissions factors for its soybean supply shed. The platform will also provide insights into current regenerative practice adoption, to assist Bartlett in designing programs to support more sustainable farming practices.

When its new soybean crush plant opens later this year in Montgomery County, Kansas, Bartlett will work with local farmers, cooperatives and commercial grain elevators to handle approximately 49 million bushels of soybeans annually at the facility, which has already begun accepting soybeans. By leveraging the insights from Regrow’s technology, Bartlett will be able to create sustainability strategies for soy oil and soy meal co-products, with data collection and reporting designed to meet evolving sustainability standards for biofuels and insetting programs. Analysing current practice adoption will also help Bartlett prioritize counties with the highest abatement potential.

Regrow combines industry-leading science and technology to help companies across the agriculture value chain measure, report, and reduce on-farm emissions, using aggregated field-level data to create a baseline. Using its soil carbon models and remote-sensing-based technology, Regrow will help Bartlett identify opportunities to support farmers by calculating high-precision emissions factors and other critical sustainability metrics.

Diverse agribusiness will utilise Regrow’s platform for

Agribusiness, Agrotech, E-commerce, Supply Chain, World

The Online Wholesale Market, functioning as a nationwide platform allowing unrestricted 24/7 transactions, stands as a pivotal endeavour aligned with the Yoon Seok Yeol administration’s national agenda

South Korea’s Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs have held the opening ceremony for the Online Agricultural Wholesale Market. This market constitutes a pioneering initiative leading the digital transformation of agricultural product distribution.

At the ceremony, Chung Hwang-keun Minister of Agriculture underscored the unprecedented nature of the world’s first online agricultural wholesale market, articulating the Ministry’s aim to cultivate the market to a scale of KRW 3.7 trillion by 2027. He emphasised the overarching goal of reducing wholesale distribution costs by KRW 700 billion and ensuring that these economic gains mutually benefit producers and consumers.

The Online Wholesale Market, functioning as a nationwide platform allowing unrestricted 24/7 transactions, is a pivotal endeavour aligned with the Yoon Seok Yeol administration’s national agenda (71-2. Digital Innovation in Agricultural Produce Distribution). Its official commencement follows ten months of preparatory efforts since establishing a joint public-private task force in February.

To ensure the early settlement of the Online Wholesale Market, the Ministry will prioritize quality management of traded products. First, seller eligibility requirements include an annual transaction volume of over KRW 5 billion for producer groups and corporations. Detailed quality information, encompassing sweetness, acidity, colour, and size, will be provided alongside basic information. 

The Online Wholesale Market, functioning as a

Company News, Environment, Sustainability

First-of-its-kind agreement on sustainability data for farmers, processors, food manufacturers and retail brand owners

dsm-firmenich, the leading innovator in health, nutrition, and beauty and Sustained, a SaaS sustainability company announced the partnership to enable customers to report the farm-to-fork environmental footprint of food products containing animal proteins including eggs, meat, milk and fish.

This agreement, the first of its kind, allows farmers, processors, food manufacturers and retail brand owners to manage and communicate the sustainability of food production by leveraging dsm-firmenich’s Suste service for capturing farm-level specific emissions data and Sustained’s platform to deliver product-level environmental life cycle assessments of consumer food products at scale.

One-third of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions come from food production. Companies along the food value chain are increasingly called upon to measure, report and reduce their environmental footprints because of their sustainability commitments, regulatory requirements and consumer preferences.

Over 70 per cent of consumers now consider sustainability as a primary driver in purchasing decisions creating a pressing need for transparent and reliable data on sustainability across the entire value chain.

First-of-its-kind agreement on sustainability data for farmers,

AgroPolicy, Agrotech, India, IT

In Phase-I of the project, the ADeX Platform is currently deployed in the Khammam district and will be expanded to the entire State over a period

K Taraka Ramarao, Telangana’s IT and Industries Minister, has launched India’s first Agricultural Data Exchange (ADeX) and Agriculture Data Management Framework (ADMF) in Hyderabad. The ADeX has been developed as a digital public infrastructure (DPI) for the agriculture sector and is a collaboration between the State Government, the World Economic Forum, and the Indian Institute of Science.

Speaking on the occasion, Ramarao said both ADeX and ADMF provide the right platform to ensure fair and efficient usage of agricultural data by the industry and startups and significantly boost the data economy, specifically in the agriculture sector. He said these initiatives help lead the country from the front in using innovation and technology to drive food systems transformation and improve farmers’ incomes.

According to newsonair.com, in Phase-I of the project, the ADeX Platform is currently deployed in the Khammam district and will be expanded to the entire State over a period. The software platform facilitates secure, standards-based data exchange between agricultural data users such as agri application developers and agricultural data providers like Government Agencies, Private Companies, NGOs and Universities.

ADMF has been developed after extensive public and industry consultations on data protection, management, and innovation.

In Phase-I of the project, the ADeX

Acquaculture, Agrotech, Company News, Live Stock

These cutting-edge platforms mark a significant advancement in the aquaculture industry, providing fish farms and aquaculture suppliers with AI-driven data intelligence to make faster

Norway-based Manolin, the leading aquaculture data intelligence company announce the highly-anticipated launch of the revolutionary platforms, Watershed and Harpoon. These cutting-edge platforms mark a significant advancement in the aquaculture industry, providing fish farms and aquaculture suppliers with AI-driven data intelligence to make faster, more accurate, and proactive decisions for sustainable growth and enhanced performance.

Watershed is a game-changing platform designed to empower aquaculture fish farms with proactive, real-time fish health management across all their farm sites. By utilising predictive analytics, Watershed saves farmers the hassle of identifying potential issues, keeping them constantly aware of risks to their farms. With this vital information at their fingertips, farmers can devote more time to forecasting metrics and benchmarking their performance, gaining invaluable insights into their operations. Watershed’s benchmarking capabilities allow farms to identify precisely what strategies work best for their farm and why, enabling strategic growth with unparalleled efficiency.

“Manolin’s data intelligence platform has been instrumental in overcoming common barriers such as reporting and insights. It enables us to unlock the full potential of our farm data, providing real-time visibility and empowering us to make data-driven decisions with confidence”, stated HEvard Olsen, CEO of KvarXy Fiskeoppdrett.

The Watershed platform offers two tiers – the free Researcher tier, designed to help farms streamline data for research purposes, and the paid Explorer tier, which provides comprehensive farm site visualization, benchmarking, and live alerts on production issues.

“With Watershed, we are empowering fish farmers to grow smarter and faster,” stated Tony Chen, CEO of Manolin. “The Researcher tier expedites data analysis for research purposes, while the Explorer tier takes farm site visualization and benchmarking to the next level. Farmers can now have real-time alerts, forecasts, and critical insights at their fingertips, all in one centralised platform. Watershed opens up new possibilities for proactive management and sustainable growth in aquaculture.”

These cutting-edge platforms mark a significant advancement

Agrotech, Company News, Environment, India, Start ups, Supply Chain

The novel platform in the plant world will help boost global accessibility to high-value nutraceuticals

Nutri-tech startup Novella Ltd, is opening a new chapter in climate-resilient environments through nutrient cultivation. The company leveraged proprietary technology to grow nutritious botanical ingredients while leaving the whole plant out of the equation. This novel platform in the plant world will help boost global accessibility to high-value nutraceuticals.

Addressing the growing demand for botanical micronutrients, the new technology overcomes supply chain disruptions, circumvents climate change, and expands plant life cycles.

“We don’t need the whole plant to get access to specific bioactive compounds,” explains Kobi Avidan, CEO and co-founder of Novella. “It also isn’t necessary to discard up to 99 per cent of a plant and incur tonnes of agricultural waste just to derive specific nutrients. We have the technology where we can narrow the harvest of an entire field for its plant essence in a single bioreactor.”

Field-to-bottle fails

The traditional “field to bottle” protocol for producing nutraceuticals involves a long, complex, and often vexing process of lengthy cultivation and labour-intensive harvesting of sensitive botanicals, and the use of vast stretches of agricultural land. Then, the raw materials must be transferred—often overseas—to a factory for extraction before transfer to another factory, often in yet another country, for formulation into a final supplement. This can also lead to difficulties in achieving standardised doses of the natural substances.

The novel platform in the plant world

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A series of pre-launch events and initiatives were organised recently by the Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare on the MyGov platform to create awareness and a sense of participation in the country around the ancient and forgotten golden grains.

The MyGov platform has become a very important and successful medium for raising awareness through organisations of various competitions. The engagement on MyGov will play an important role in helping to make it a people’s movement. 

A series of pre-launch events and initiatives

Agro chems – Fertilizers, Climate, Environment, India, Sustainability

ICAR-Indian Institute of Soil Science, Bhopal under the All India Network Programme on Organic Farming Centre, held a Mass awareness campaign on “Cow-Compost-Carbon and Climate under Theme: Organic/Natural Farming” as a commemoration of 75 years of India’s Independence.

The  aim of the Mass Awareness Campaign was to create awareness and  importance of cow and composting to enrich the soil with carbon, which links to mitigate climate change.

An interactive session with farmers was also held during the programme and more than 250 participants including farmers, scientists, students, extension workers, and other officials, participated in the virtual platform program.

ICAR-Indian Institute of Soil Science, Bhopal under

India, Start ups

Harvesting Farmer Network (HFN), a leading agriculture technology platform in India, has raised $4 million from Social Capital, a Silicon Valley-based technology investment firm managed by Chamath Palihapitiya. This is the first institutional round raised by HFN, which will be used to reach more than 120 million smallholder farmers across India, as well as explore opportunities in India’s rural markets.

HFN helps smallholder farmers (defined by the UN as a farmer owning less than 2 hectare of land) in India to increase their income by empowering them with a collective bargaining platform. Through HFN’s platform, farmers are able to buy farm inputs, access financial services such as loans and insurance, as well as sell their crops to national and international customers enabling them to scale and grow their businesses.

Founded by Ruchit Garg during COVID-19, HFN was created to reduce the friction between farmers and buyers, initially by enabling them to connect directly on Twitter. Since then, more than $500 million of crops, consisting of over 360 crop varieties, have been listed on HFN’s digital platform from every state across India. These crops have been sold domestically as well as to international markets. A global agricultural powerhouse, India produces more than $275 billion of crops annually.

As of August 2022, more than 3.7 million farmers are digitally connected to the HFN platform, witnessing a 2.5X increase in their crop earnings. Recently, many forward-thinking farmers have even launched offline centres known as “HFN Kisan Centres” to help fellow local farmers sell their crops and buy staple inputs such as seeds and fertiliser at affordable prices.

Ruchit G Garg, Founder CEO of HFN, said: “At HFN, our goal is to help farmers realise their full potential by reducing the plethora of inefficiencies across the agriculture value chain. Simple and widely-available technologies like WhatsApp and Twitter have allowed us to create massive data-driven farmer co-operatives, which allows farmers to negotiate better rates for farm inputs and more competitive prices for outputs.”

Jay Zaveri, Partner at Social Capital, said: “India is one of the bread baskets of the world and we’re excited to partner with HFN to bring a safe, secure, and empowering platform to the more than 120 million smallholder farmers across India. Our goal is to enable Indian households to access high-quality farm produce and for farmers to build a profitable livelihood through HFN.”

HFN plans to use the new funding to rapidly expand its footprint across India, and over the next 12 months, it expects to connect farmers in every single one of India’s 708 districts across the country.

Harvesting Farmer Network (HFN), a leading agriculture

Agrotech, IT, Sustainability

Over 17000 assets, including its internationally recognised scientific and research publications, standards, textbooks, annual meeting papers, will be migrated to the new platform

Impelsys, a leading global provider of digital transformation solutions, announced the launch of American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE’s) new eLibrary on its iPC Scholar 3.0 platform. ASABE – a global leader in promoting sustainable technology and practices, will migrate over 17000 assets, including its internationally recognised scientific and research publications, standards, textbooks, annual meeting papers, and more, to the new platform.

The first phase of the migration process has gone live with journals and will soon be followed by ASABE’s other publications. The new eLibrary on iPC Scholar 3.0 platform accentuates an enhanced user experience for ASABE’s individual and organisational members.

Joseph Walker, Director of publications,, ASABE, said, “We will be able to host and distribute our journals to multiple types of subscribers with the iPC Scholar 3.0. The platform will provide our customers with an intuitive user experience, easy navigation, and content discovery. With this launch, we are looking forward to migrating all our content and digital assets to the iPC Scholar 3.0 platform.”

As an intelligent content delivery platform, the iPC Scholar 3.0 is a ‘ready-to-deploy’ journal solution and caters to all aspects of content management, distribution, and monetisation. A white-label solution that represents an organisation’s brand effortlessly, it is a unified solution for publishing valuable content like journals and other digital research content. 

“We welcome ASABE to the iPC 3.0 community of innovative future-ready societies. iPC Scholar 3.0 is one of the most comprehensive content delivery platforms for societies and associations and will help ASABE to empower its members to improve their research with easy and quick access to relevant content. We are excited about many new possibilities in the future, working with ASABE and enabling them in their digital transformation journey,” said Mahesh Chikodi, Vice President of Products & Platforms at Impelsys.

Over 17000 assets, including its internationally recognised

Agrotech, Environment, Sustainability, Water

The tie-up will help bolster India’s agri-output with the power of micro-irrigation

AgriBazaar signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Rivulis, a global leader in micro-irrigation products and solutions. As part of the collaboration, agribazaar will enable the farmers on its platform to deploy Rivulis’ best-in-class field irrigation management products and solutions to increase their lands’ yield output effectively.

In the first phase of the partnership, agribazaar will facilitate purchasing and installing Rivulis’ drip irrigation systems for the sugarcane farmers on its platforms. Eventually, the services will be offered to all the farmers – over 3,00,000 – currently registered on the agribazaar platform.

agribazaar will leverage agribhumi, its remote sensing engine, to determine the exact condition of the farmland and ensure the use of irrigated water in a uniform manner. It will assess the need of individual farmers based on their land topography, soil conditions, crop selection and weather forecasting. The platform will also provide in-depth field state analytics with the agriculture weather forecast, vegetation indices, and stages of plant growth, among other vital factors.

The MoU signing ceremony was attended by Kaushal Jaiswal, MD, Rivulis India, Richard Klapholz, CEO, Rivulis Israel, and Eran Ossmy, President, Drip Products Division. Amit Mundawala, Co-founder and MD and Amith Agarwal, CEO & Co-founder represented agribazaar.

The tie-up will help bolster India’s agri-output