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🎧 What is Urban Farming? | Vincent Wei, Co-Founder, Archisen, Singapore based Agritech Co, focussed on Urban Farming

Urban farming has been around for decades. Now, it’s becoming more popular as people are realizing the need to reduce food miles and the environmental impact of raising animals, and the use of fertilizers and pesticides. While it sounds great in theory, the reality of farming in urban areas is not as easy.

🎧 Vinayak Raman Sharma On Sustainable Farming In India

How can an effective communication strategy boost the prospects of sustainable farming in India and why is it so important to communicate the idea of sustainable farming? Anisha Nayar Dhawan talks to Vinayak Raman Sharma, President and Business Head, Seedworks International Private Limited, about the power and technique of sustainable farming and how it can impact agri scenario in India.

🎧 Prabir Mishra Talks About Real World Use Cases of NFTs in Agriculture Industry | Web3Verse 01

There is still a lot of confusion about how things in Web 3.0 function and how Entrepreneurs can make use of it to bring change in the real world.  When we say – NFTs, Cryptos and DeFi, there is a general impression that these instruments must be significant only in the virtual world.  But Prabir Mishra in this episode of Web3Verse erases this notion and throws light on how the blockchain technology is not limited to the digital application, but can be very much used to solve the real world problems.

🎧 #26: African AgriTech – Early opportunities for technology to scale Agriculture across Africa

Overview: Today, we discuss the opportunity for Agriculture technology to make a difference in Africa. We’ll start with some context of African Agriculture, discuss AgriTech in developed and emerging markets, analyze Agritech players across Africa & end with our overall outlook. This episode was recorded on Apr 4, 2021.

🎧 S2 | E3 | Why IoT and Agritech are the Perfect Match | Sumanta Talukdar & Richard Osterloh – Gardin

In S2 episode 3, we get into the world of Vertical Farming🌱🌿, connecting with Sumanta Talukdar -CEO and Richard Osterloh – Lead Embedded Systems Engineer at Gardin Agritech🌱 who explore the global need for Vertical Farming and why IoT will play a significant role now and onto the future. Sit back, relax and be the first to discover… 🌱 Why IoT has become such an integral part of agritech.

🎧 Intersection of Ag and Tech: Emerging Trends in 2022

Agtech investor and strategist Seana Day provides a deep analysis into what we can expect to see from the agtech ecosystem in 2022. Tracking 1,500+ agtech companies, Seana reveals what she sees as the top trends for the future year – such as a fintech/agtech crossover, more mergers/acquisitions, expansion of asset utilization and more. Tune in to journey with Seana as she explores the opportunities and challenges for agtech in 2022 and beyond.

🎧 AJVC Unfiltered 44: Can DeHaat Plant the Seeds for India’s Agricultural Revolution?

Last fortnight, DeHaat posted a 2x jump in revenue, growing to 350Cr, hot on the heels of the largest fundraise announcement for an Indian agritech. For more details visit –

🎧 What’s the role of government in agtech ecosystems? Salvatore Lavallo, Abu Dhabi Investment Office

It’s fair to say most entrepreneurs (and farmers!) aren’t big fans of government rules and regulations for fear of being slowed down by red tape and bureaucracy. However, the political environment in which a startup develops can have a big impact on its ability to find investment and support, especially in agtech, where ecosystems are still very new for most countries.

🎧 Why It Matters: Solving the agritech marketing challenges

According to the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), small farmers produce a third of the world’s food. But despite that, farmers are still finding it difficulties to sell their crops. Shaad Hamid, General Manager, GrowthOps Singapore shares why agritech companies are facing challenges in the marketing front and the role GrowthOps have in helping a business through complex challenges. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

🎧 160. Middle Tech AgTech: Lincoln Day on Helping Build Kentucky’s AgTech Industry

Lincoln Day is Middle Tech’s newest team member, creating content and news in the AgTech space (specifically in Kentucky). Lincoln is the founder of Stalk Commodities, a Kentucky based company working to automate crop harvesting processes. We’re pumped to welcome Lincoln to the team and are excited to help facilitate conversation around Kentucky’s booming AgTech ecosystem as we work to make it “the AgTech capital of the world”.

🎧 #78 – Case Syngenta – Importância e boas práticas de Employee Experience.

Na 78ª edição do Gestão de Pessoas vamos falar sobre: “Case Syngenta: Importância e boas práticas de Employee Experience” com a Daniella Bonança, Global Head of Employee Experience. Dentre os temas debatidos estão: 1. Por que o employee experience é tão importante? 2. Rotinas e boas práticas da Syngenta no tema.

🎧 India’s agritech market: The opportunities and challenges for Aussie startups

As the Managing Partner of Omnivore – the largest and oldest player in the Indian agritech venture scene – Mark Kahn understands what it takes to really ‘make it’ after building a venture capital firm from the ground up that’s pioneered agritech investing in India. Omnivore boasts a portfolio of more than 25 agritech startups in an economy where agriculture and agribusiness account for a quarter of India’s GDP.

🎧 Growth lessons from building Bijak, a B2B Agritech marketplace ft. Founder, Nukul Upadhye

As per the recent data by Tracxn, there are 1338 AgriTech startups in India. However, with 118.7 million farmers, who contribute to a mere 17-18% of Indian GDP, many problem statements are left to be solved at a larger scale. In March 2020, we interviewed Vaibhav Domkundwar from Better Capital, where he mentioned their then-recent investment in Bijak – their first interaction with the founders and their thesis behind the investment.

🎧 Later-Stage Agtech Startup Lessons #1 – Michael Gilbert, Semios

In this 3-part series, we’ll share the lessons from agtech startup founders who have grown their agtech companies from idea to at least 100 employees. We’ll be examining what’s worked (and hasn’t), differences between agtech and other industries, and what the founders have learned along the way about the industry and themselves.

🎧 Agreena – Agritech and the rise of Carbon Farming

Agreena was founded within the industry by visionary farmers and fintech-savvies. What originated as an online commodity trading marketplace has become one of the first carbon farming platforms in the pan-European landscape. Using a set of core principles to regenerate soil, the company’s unique vertically integrated solution suggests putting the farmer first – backing with the knowledge, support, and incentives to implement sustainable ag practices at scale.

🎧 Jonathan Webb, CEO, AppHarvest: AgTech Farming for Our Planet’s Future

Amid the verdant rolling hills of central Kentucky, in the heart of Appalachian coal country, you’ll find 60 acres of a massive, glass-encased structure. Inside, you’ll find row after row of tomatoes. The bounty — sold in grocery retailers like Kroger, Publix, and Walmart — is grown and harvested to precision using data, AI, and robotics by an AgTech company called AppHarvest.

🎧 421: Benchmark Labs with Carlos F. Gaitan Ospina

Carlos F. Gaitan Ospina is the Founder and CEO of Benchmark Labs, which provides IoT-based weather forecasting solutions for the agriculture, energy, and insurance sectors worldwide using proprietary machine-learning software. Chad talks with Carlos about creating the company, the hardware they’re producing and what it is doing, and where the machine learning comes into play.

🎧 INSIGHTS #64 – Future of Agritech: The evolution of Agritech in India

Taking cues from a top-down structural approach, the Agritech industry has many layers to it. On top of them however, like every other major industry, Financial services is also a critical part of Agritech. However, it is largely unorganised and has plenty of room for disruption. Most farmers in the country do not have access to credit-based lending facilities and startups like Samunnati are attempting to fill that gap.

🎧 Ep599: Dganit Vered | CEO, Smart Agro R&D Partnership

Bio: An experienced investor in Agritech and Food tech companies. Until recently was a Venture Partner at Entrée Capital, responsible for AgriTech and FoodTech investments. Invested in 4 Agritech startups. An active Chairwoman of the board at ViAqua and board members in additional startups. Dganit brings over 20 years of senior management experience as Intel Israel CS site manager and VP R&D with Perrigo and Hazera.

🎧 Meesho planning an IPO; Ninjakart launches agritech fund; CredAvenue turns unicorn; Apollo.io raises $110 mln from Sequoia

Meesho is preparing for an IPO as early as 2023, Reuters reports, citing an internal company document it has seen. According to Reuters, the Bangalore company is working to be ready for a listing by the end of 2022 and is evaluating both Indian and US exchanges. Ninjacart, an agri-tech platform provider, has launched a $25 million fund.

🎧 Women Leaders & Innovators in Agtech

Today we speak to Amy Wu, Founder and Creator of From Farms to Incubators, a multimedia platform that uses documentary, video, photography, and the written word to tell the stories of women leaders and innovators in agtech. It has a mission of highlighting women in food, farming, and farmtech, especially women of color.

🎧 EP 193 How to Launch a Food Business

Do you have a favorite recipe you’d like to turn into a food business, but don’t know where to start? Our guest, Alison Elliott, is the founder and CEO of The Farmer Foodie, and she’s sharing her fresh ingredients for launching a food business. Originally a food blog featuring over 150 healthy, sustainable, plant-forward recipes, Alison created the brand’s initial product called Everything Cheeze, a delicious Cashew Parmesan Alternative.

🎧 Neue Lösungen für die Landwirtschaft, Happybrush erhält 4 Millionen Euro

Agtech, Agritech, Agrartechnologie – der Einsatz von Technologie in der Landwirtschaft, im Gartenbau und in der Aquakultur hat mehrere Namen. Doch dahinter verbirgt sich immer dasselbe Ziel: Ertrag, Effizienz und Rentabilität verbessern und ökologische und ethische Herausforderungen meistern.  Der Markt dafür in Deutschland ist groß.

🎧 Compondo a Tese – 24.12.2021

Atenção (disclaimer): Os dados aqui apresentados representam minha opinião pessoal. Não são de forma alguma indicações de compra ou venda de ativos no mercado financeiro. Pix já equivale a mais de 80%

🎧 Astor Perkin’s AgTech Panel April 2021

Astor Perkin’s AgTech panel.

🎧 Agritech Trends & Opportunities in Cambodia

Agriculture is the pillar of the country. In Cambodia, agriculture contributes almost 27% of Cambodia’s GDP and around 31% of the workforce is employed in this sector. With the recent trade agreements such as China and Korea’s FTA and the UK’s Generalised Scheme of Preference (GSP), top agricultural export products are anticipated to immensely increase their export demand.

🎧 Unlocking the Power of Pricing Analytics to Optimize Your Pricing with Kevin Coppinger

Kevin Coppinger is currently the Director of Analytics in Ferrellgas. He is passionate about leading groups that turn large data into an asset, providing leadership the opportunity for insights and actions. In this episode, Kevin shares his analytics journey as he talks about the importance of data in providing better service and becoming a better service provider in the field.

🎧 Tata Steel’s TV Narendran on why current crisis won’t derail growth

Q: What is your assessment for FY23 at a time of volatile commodity prices and disruption in supply chain? Ans: >Corporates should bring in resilience and agility in the way they work >CII toned down the growth forecast a bit, but overall sentiment among corporates is positive >CII’s 7.5 to 8% growth estimate makes India one of the fastest growing large economies  >Corporates keen to spend more capex and hire more people than they did in the past >The existing headwinds are not expected to derail the growth trajectory of India Inc   Q: More than growth, the concern this year is inflation

🎧 EP#48 Ritu Verma – Seeding startups that are building for the next billion, challenges faced as a GP and the importance of collaboration in venture

In this episode, Ritu Verma (Co-founder & Managing Partner, Ankur Capital), joins our host Digjay, to talk about her path leading up to venture capital, thesis & vision at Ankur Capital, learnings from past investments in Agritech & Healthtech, common blind spots faced by founders in the 0-1 phase, Learnings from Fund I, challenges faced as a GP, collaborating with fellow VCs & more.

🎧 Robots for Smart Agriculture — Eric Adamson, CEO of Tortuga AgTech

Led by CEO Eric Adamson, Tortuga AgTech aims to raise agricultural margins and reduce hard human working conditions by delivering innovative robotic crop pickers to farmers throughout the world. Below are two excerpts from the podcast. “Our aim is to solve the farm’s hardest problem, which we view to be the crushing labor of manual hand harvesting by creating robotic crop pickers, which we believe will then fundamentally shift the rest of the industry because when you relieve the pressure point of the system everything else changes naturally.

🎧 Ne pas mourir de faim face au tsunami démographique Asiatique

La démographie est de loin l’indicateur le plus mésestimé dans nos analyses sur le futur. Et pourtant, même si elle est incertaine, les tendances qu’elle nous donne devraient largement dicter nos décisions.  C’est d’ailleurs en grande partie le cas dans la vivacité des segments de marché passionnants que sont l’Agritech et la Foodtech.

🎧 Rising Giants N.42 – Parth Borkotoky, Chief Executive Officer, Azaylla

This week Parth joins us on RG. He runs Azaylla, which is one of the most recent startups in Cambodia to secure funding – from the VC impact firm Uberis Capital (see RG episode N.12 with Trisha of Uberis). Parth has been interested in agriculture from an early age, receiving an MS degree in Agricultural Economics from Universiti Putra Malaysia.

🎧 Let’s explore share farming! Welcome to season two of Farming Together

Welcome to the first episode of Season 2 of the Farming Together podcast. This time around we’ve narrowed our focus to the creative and resourceful world of sharefarming. After receiving a bunch of requests from farmers asking us for more stories and resources about share-farming models, we’ve decided to dedicate our upcoming season to this very topic.

🎧 184: AgTech M&A with Bushel and Farmlogs Founders, Jake Joraanstad and Jesse Vollmar

This week we talk to two agtech founders – Jake Joraanstad, the CEO and co-founder of Bushel, and Jesse Vollmar, the CEO and co-founder of FarmLogs – about the recent news of Bushel acquiring Farmlogs. Bushel is an independently owned software company and leading provider of software technology solutions for growers, grain buyers, ag retailers, protein producers and food companies.

🎧 From a leading member of a young company with only 5 members, now a Chief Executive Officer of a famous food company.

In this episode, I interview Jay Albany, Chief Executive Officer of Dirty Clean Food, a subsidiary of an ASX-listed company based in Southeast of Perth in Australia. Jay set up his business to help farmers grow their business and provide healthy and nature-friendly foods delivered in famous restaurants and grocery stores.

🎧 Astor Perkins AgTech Panel Oct 27th 2021

Agtech panel with Karn Manhas, CEO of Terramera, Brad McNamara, Co-Founder & Former CEO of Freight Farms and Jake Felser, CTO of Freight Farms and David Hamilton Nichols, Family Office & Impact Investor.

🎧 Translating Agtech – E10

Really great conversation with Sarah Nolet, founder of both the agtech focused VC firm Tenacious Ventures and AgThentic an agtech strategy and advisory firm, as well as the host of the “AgTech…So What?” podcast. We discussed the how agtech in the US and Australia differ, the importance of translating values and points of view between tech entrepreneurs and farmers, why we need measurement and verification in regenerative agriculture, the importance of getting the business model right in complex supply chains like agriculture, what the most promising technologies are in agtech and more.

🎧 Paul Lee, co-founder of Synesis One, discusses the future of NLP and AI data harvesting using games and blockchains to earn NFTs

Paul Lee, serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Synesis One, combined his love of games with a passion for NLP and AI. He realized language ontologies can be developed by players solving problems in games. They can be rewarded with NFTs backed by tokens on a blockchain. A brilliant idea… from a Renaissance man who is also a medical doctor and the founder of a care marketplace for veterinarians.

🎧 Episode 85 – Collaborate Farming and all its advantages

Land Prices are through the roof, bank lending policies continue to tighten, and the red tape is getting thicker for all across our industry.   If we are serious about farm expansion, inter-generational transition and driving new & improved operating performance, we need to be looking and thinking ‘outside the box’ now more than ever.

🎧 MyFarmLab, Microgreens & Malaysia.

MyFarm Lab is a social enterprise that empowers socio-economically disadvantaged communities through sustainable agro-technology solutions. They’ve recently formed a strategic partnership with MySkills Foundation to set up a Microgreen facility in its Kalumpang Campus. We speak with the COO Kamalan Rajagopalu and CEO Thanaselan Rajendran about the future of microgreens, urban farming and how this initiative could be expanded nationwide.

🎧 Climate volatility helps agtech platform Semios raise $100M round led by Morningside

One of the greatest challenges for farmers today is the increasing volatility in the climate, leading to unpredictable weather patterns, making growing conditions challenging. If farmers can’t grow crops, then our food security is as risk. Gradually, the field of agtech is attempting to address this issue. There are increasing numbers of FaaS (farming as […]

🎧 #194: Ravish Saily on how employers can manage and engage diverse employees to the organization’s advantage

Our next guest has mastered the art of doing HR the right way. We welcome Ravish Saily, Head HR- Global Delivery Center, Syngenta – an agriculture company focused on improving global food security by enabling millions of farmers to make better use of available resources. Ravish has over two decades of diverse experience in the HR field.

🎧 Semios CEO Michael Gilbert on agtech’s potential

Vancouver-based agricultural technology firm Semios has raised more than $100 million over the past few years amid the surging demand to rethink how we approach our food sources. CEO Michael Gilbert joins BIV Today to discuss the company’s path and the potential for agtech to change the way we grow foods. Tyler Orton hosts.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

🎧 Farming Too Big vs. Farming Efficiently

This episode features JM Fortier. Make farming easier with the Paperpot Transplanter and Other Small Farm Equipment at  Follow PaperpotCo on IG Podcasts by Diego Footer: Microgreens: Vegetable Farming: Livestock Farming: Large Scale Farming: Small Farm Tools

🎧 UNAJUA S4 EP1: What lies are often told about Africa’s agriculture sector? ft. Karidas Tshitshonlo

This UNAJUA series features a South African agritech founder called Karidas Tshitshonlo. Karidas has a lot of insight to share from his agribusiness adventure thus far, but before we get to that. Karidas T. shares his take on how innovation in agriculture is providing new opportunities not only to the farmers but to the consumers as well.

🎧 Agricultural Technology: Die Zukunft der Landwirtschaft I Mit Kristina Lutilsky

Bei Landwirtschaft denken die meisten von uns erstmal an Felder, Tiere, schwere Maschinen, und natürlich die aktuellen Diskussionen um Nachhaltigkeit, Umwelt und Tierwohl. Und wir assoziieren damit eher eine konservative, traditionelle Branche. Doch die wenigsten wissen, dass sich auch in diesem Bereich die Digitalisierung immer mehr durchsetzt.

🎧 Josh Lessing on AppHarvest and the future of robotic farming

On the penultimate episode (Ep.21) of Season One of The Robot Brains Podcast our guest is Josh Lessing. Josh is the CTO of AppHarvest, one of the leading pioneers in Agricultural Technology (or AgTech). Farming is one of the world’s oldest industries, but in many ways the technologies and techniques used by farmers hasn’t progressed much in centuries.

🎧 Episode 113 Part One #KedaiSayur “How Agritech Adapting Consumer Behaviour Change During Pandemic”

Pandemi Covid-19 mengubah perilaku belanja di Indonesia dari offline ke online. Masyarakat mulai banyak memanfaatkan platform jual-beli untuk mendapatkan kebutuhan sehari-hari selama PSBB. Tren ini tentu menjadi peluang besar bagi pelaku agritech yang memasarkan bahan pangan, seperti sayur mayur dan buah-buahan.

🎧 The AGRF’s Catherine Ndung’u and Dominik Klauser from Syngenta Foundation; Soil and Root Health and Tackling Climate Change

For our first episode of Season 2 of the AGRF Podcast Catherine Ndung’u from the AGRF is joined by Dominik Klauser, Program Officer in the Research and Development team at Syngenta Foundation. They discuss soil and root health and the important role they play in tackling climate change. You can let us know what you think via Twitter @theagrf, facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram. Please register to join us for the AGRF 2021 Summit from the 7th to the 10th of September.

🎧 Pollinating Palm Trees Using Drones in the UAE (15.11.21)

An Emirati-led AgriTech start-up has developed a drone that can pollinate date palm trees in less than a minute. In this episode, we discuss how the technology works. We also talk about how the FBI email system was hacked to send out fake cybersecurity warnings and Instagram offering creators up to $35,000 to post videos to its TikTok clone.