We wanted to read more about the growing Agri-tech market in the current UK landscape and overall the UK invests in £24 million on Agri-tech projects per year.
Just in the last few days a farm-lab experimenting with some of the latest Agri-tech solutions has been opened by Barclays Bank and a university partnership as part of its network of co-working spaces to help start-ups flourish and develop.
The end goal by all companies is to help the British farming industry become the most digitally enabled in the world.
Agri-tech can be shaped into a number of new technology developments and below are just some of the tech projects that the government has recently funded on stabilising the UK's hold as being an Agri-tech strong hold.
The use of GPS tracking to improve productivity of grazing dairy cows
To encourage farmers to keep their cows grazing outdoors, by developing a system that monitors cows’ grazing behaviour and automatically opens gates to new pasture when the cows want more food.
Systems of leading vertical farming technologies
Vertical farming (growing produce in stacked levels indoors) is an exciting new technology. This project will help develop new vertical farming systems by combining different technologies to optimize growing conditions.
A fleet of autonomous multi modal soft fruit robots
The First Fleet– world’s first autonomous multi modal soft fruit robots will carry out a wide variety of tasks in the field. The system will transform robotic strawberry production from the laboratory bench to a commercially relevant system.
With a global pandemic still effecting us the farming industry is currently facing a number of challenges, so there is a great drive to fund, develop and constantly think of new solutions to the issues and aid in the recovery of our sector.
We at Intellicore are extremely excited to be working with industry where with the talent of developers anything is possible, solvable and can improve such an important industry.
