As maize farmers around the country survey their crops for the 2018/2019 season, many are battling with tight margins that have prompted cutbacks on insurance in recent years.

Driverless car technology promises to revolutionise the very mechanics of the motor insurance sector, not only by dramatic improvements in safety, but also how providers make, or don’t make, money.

BEACON advances the inclusion of EO satellites within the AgI processes and adopts a smart contract and blockchain technology which will low the operational and administrative costs by transforming traditional processes to automated ones.

With increasingly severe weather, growing political volatility, cyber concerns and other threats, farmers need to continue to invest in their risk preparedness.

Farming has entered a new era—one where tractors drive themselves, irrigation systems respond to real-time weather data, and AI models predict yields and pest outbreaks with uncanny accuracy.