Robotics Plus, a New Zealand agricultural robotics company, has signed an agency and distribution agreement with Global Pac Technologies, a joint venture between US company Van Doren Sales and the New Zealand-owned Jenkins Group.

The AI in agriculture market was valued at USD 600 million in 2018 and is expected to reach USD 2.6 billion by 2025.

South Africa has the highest emission intensity in the G20 group of industrialised and developing countries. This threatens its commitment to help slow global warming. This disproportionate contribution is driven by the country’s coal-dependent national electricity utility, Eskom.

Agriculture is what makes us human. Sure, there are ants and fish and crabsthat perform the act of cultivating food; but this is a different kind of farming. Humans use farming to sustain our imbalanced population growth, and in many ways it has gotten away from us.

With the introduction of agriculture drones and robots, several concerns related to the growth of farm produce can be resolved, including the shifting structure of the agriculture workforce along with the problem of decreasing arable land as compared to the fast-growing population.

2020 was one of those years that not only affected our lives and livelihoods globally but also have fundamentally transformed the way we look, approach, and predict the future. We probably require distance thinking rather than a myopic view when we are talking about forecasting.