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How Autonomous Weeding Robots Could Transform African Agriculture
As African agriculture embraces precision technology, autonomous machinery could help farmers reduce input costs, address labour shortages and improve crop productivity. Kilter’s AX-1 autonomous weeding...
Getting Ahead of Cutworms: Lessons from 2025 for the 2026/27 Season
Farmers are being urged to prepare for cutworm outbreaks before planting, following recent seasons in which the pest caused significant damage to maize and, to...
Corteva Raises the Bar on Seed Testing with a Precision-Driven Approach
Seed quality is more than a laboratory result or a number printed on a seed bag. According to Viwe Siwisa, Quality Testing Manager at Corteva...
How AI Is Transforming the Crop Input Supply Chain
Artificial intelligence is being used to help make the crop input supply chain more predictive, giving seed and agricultural input companies earlier insights into crop...
Robigo Engineers Microbes to Improve Biological Crop Protection
Agricultural biotechnology company Robigo is developing engineered microbial products designed to improve the effectiveness and reliability of biological crop protection. The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company recently...
Poultry Feed Crisis: An Opportunity for Africa’s Young Agripreneurs
Africa’s poultry sector is under growing pressure as the cost of key feed ingredients such as yellow maize and soya continues to rise and fluctuate....
Syngenta Highlights AI’s Role in the Future of Agriculture
Syngenta is exploring how artificial intelligence, engineering and digital technologies can help shape the next generation of agricultural solutions, with more than 500 technology and...
Bayer Advances New Crop Science Technologies
Bayer is advancing a new generation of crop science technologies as it moves ahead with the commercialisation of several new seed, crop protection and digital...
BigBucks Gala Wins European Plant Rights After Eight-Year Wait
South Africa’s BigBucks Gala apple has secured an important international milestone after more than eight years of testing and evaluation, with the European Union now...
African Wheat Breeders Explore Digital Tools
Wheat breeders from Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi and Zimbabwe met in Addis Ababa from August 10–14, 2026, to strengthen regional collaboration and explore digital and data-driven...