Focus 3 – Crop Protection & Precision Farming
We research and invest in the following sub-categories;
- Pesticide Alternatives, biological pest control, such as genetic engineering practices and bio-pesticides
- Robots & Sensors, on the ground tools, that are developed to manage, predict, harvest and process
- Arial Monitoring, off the ground tools (such as drones and satellites) that contribute to the mapping and treatments of soils
Worldwide, herbicides is a $26bio market
Roundup alone sells $4bio to $5bio of glyphosate based pesticides
In the US, 90% of soybean, cotton and corn are GMOs
In the 70% of grain produced is to feed livestock