For the past 100 years, progress in food production has been mostly the result of chemical and industrial advances. Better fertilizers, more efficient pesticides, tractors, industrial food production.
Now we’re entering a new age of farming, one in which sensors measure soil quality, agribots do the harvest, and salad grows in vertical farms, with LED lights outshining the sun for better results.
This conversation brings together Hannah Brown, Co-Founder Organifarms, which automates complex processes in indoor farming, and Alexander Gerfer, Managing Director and Chief Technology Officer of Würth Elektronik, in conversation with Aman Dogra of the Financial Times.
