Author: Hithaishi CB

Integration Will Streamline Irrigation Management for Drip Irrigators  CropX Technologies, a leading provider of digital farm management, today announced an API integration with WiseConn, a global leader in precision drip irrigation solutions, to further improve data gathering and analytics for farmers worldwide. WiseConn users will be able to seamlessly incorporate the CropX system into their precision irrigation network. WiseConn irrigation systems are used throughout North and South America, Europe and Australia.   CropX’s agronomic farm management system incorporates farm data from sensors, satellites, rain gauges and farm machinery into an advanced analytics platform to optimize decision-making and crop management. With the…

New initiative to support Cropin to develop a Food Security Decision Intelligence solution powered by AWS AI technologies, to track crop cultivation, production patterns, and climate change India’s Bengaluru based Cropin Technology, a global Agtech leader enabling intelligent agriculture, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) India Private Limited have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) focused on enabling Cropin to build a solution to address the pressing issue of global hunger and food insecurity. This initiative aims to help Cropin develop core data architecture, analytics, modelling, and simulation components that can aggregate global farmland data and broader climate intelligence within a…

Ministry shares trajectories for multilateral cooperation across the food production sector Philippines Agriculture Secretary Francisco P. Tiu Laurel, Jr. has expressed the significant changes in the department’s 2025 budget to achieve President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr.’s goal to modernize agriculture, increase food production and ensure food security. “The budget in 2025 will be very different from this year,” the agri chief told members of the Philippine Chamber of Agriculture and Food Inc. (PCAFI) recently. Apart from pushing the production of rice, the country’s national staple, Sec. Tiu Laurel envisions a budget that will increase livestock, poultry and high value crop output, widen…

Joint expansion of market presence with products and solutions for the gut health of livestock The Grand Opening of Evonik Vland Biotech’s joint venture with Shandong Vland Biotech in Qingdao, China is now announced. The two parent companies, Evonik China and Shandong Vland Biotech, want to jointly expand the market presence of their products, such as probiotics for the gut health of livestock in the Greater China region, and develop new products and solutions. The joint venture was officially opened in Qingdao on March 14. The joint venture is based at the Vland Biotech Park in Qingdao and uses Vland’s…

Precise irrigation solutions used across the diverse agricultural regions in the US, Europe, Latin America, and Australia China’s RAKwireless, a trusted IoT solution innovator, and Ambiq, a leading energy-efficient semiconductor provider, demonstrated the real-world impact of technology on agriculture by implementing WiseConn’s precision irrigation systems using the RAK11720 hybrid LoRaWAN + BLE module enabled by the Ambiq Apollo3 Blue MCU.  WiseConn, notable for its precise irrigation solutions used across the diverse agricultural regions in the US, Europe, Latin America, and Australia, has launched its latest innovation with an integration for RAKwireless’ RAK11720 to address its need for extensive signal reach…

Robotics Plus’ Prospr, a multi-use autonomous vehicle for sustainable vineyard and orchard production hits Australia and New Zealand markets Croplands is now the exclusive Australasian distributor of Prospr, a robust autonomous, multi-use hybrid vehicle platform for horticulture crops designed by Robotics Plus. Prospr significantly increases efficiency across a variety of crop tasks and alleviates labour challenges, with capabilities including automated intelligent spraying. The distribution agreement complements the existing technology partnership between the companies. Robotics Plus specialises in the design and build of robotics, AI, and autonomous machines, and Croplands has over 50 years of experience in world-leading spraying solutions. Sean…

The initiative aimed to connect CP Foods with leading New Zealand companies to foster the advancement of innovative, secure, and sustainable food production techniques New Zealand Trade and Enterprise Thailand have collaborated with Charoen Pokphand Foods Public Company Limited (CP Foods) to conduct a business matching and showcase event focused on improving food quality and sustainability. The initiative aimed to connect CP Foods with leading New Zealand companies to foster the advancement of innovative, secure, and sustainable food production techniques. This effort is in line with Thailand’s ambition to become the world’s food capital and illustrates New Zealand’s technology prowess through the “See Tomorrow…

The Coalition aims to promote e-NG (e-natural gas or e-methane) across all global markets and to strengthen the e-NG value chain Mitsubishi Corporation has entered into an MOU with other large international companies to sponsor the creation of a global coalition, the e-NG Coalition, which is exclusively dedicated to electric natural gas (e-NG or e-natural gas), also referred to as e-methane. The e-NG Coalition is a collaborative alliance of pioneering companies that believe e-NG has a role to play to accelerate the energy transition towards a net-zero carbon future. The Coalition seeks to promote e-NG, build a global market with…

In 2023 Vietnamese fibre exports hit 1.7 million tonnes, valued at more than $4.3 billion Vietnam has continued to retain its position as the sixth largest fibre exporter in the world, just behind China and Bangladesh, and above the Republic of Korea, since 2022. The General Department of Customs reported that in February alone Vietnam exported 282,059 tonnes of fibre and earned $666.75 million, up 26.7% in volume and up 18.1% in value compared to the same period last year. China made up Vietnam’s largest market as fiber exports reached 129,112 tonnes worth more than US$329 million, rising by 60%…

Korea-ASEAN FTA to boost digital and supply chain capabilities The Republic of Korea (RoK) is promoting negotiations to improve the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to further benefit businesses. The RoK’s Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy announced that the 20th Korea-ASEAN Free Trade Agreement Implementing Committee meeting was held in Jakarta, Indonesia from March 12 to 13. As part of the meeting, the RoK and ASEAN member countries reviewed the outcomes of past joint research projects and discuss measures for an upgrade of the bilateral FTA through a workshop. Both sides have…