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AgTech Navigator News
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Agtech adoption faces barriers not because of technology shortcomings, but due to systemic issues such as trust, risk management, interoperability, and recognition of farmers' existing efforts. Experts from Asia, Europe, and the US emphasized that successful adoption requires building trust with farmers, supporting stakeholder coordination, acknowledging farmers' achievements, and creating systems where new technologies integrate seamlessly into established practices. The consensus is that addressing these broader systems challenges is essential for moving agtech from pilot stages to widespread, meaningful impact.
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Italian start-up Nanomnia is focusing on plastic-free, biodegradable encapsulation technologies to enable the reliable delivery of fragile biological crop protection actives, such as peptides and dsRNA, outside controlled environments. Co-founder and CEO Marta Bonaconsa emphasizes that the real bottleneck for next-generation biologicals is not discovery, but ensuring stability and consistent field performance through advanced delivery systems. Nanomnia partners with developers and manufacturers upstream, aiming to license its platform technology at scale, and plans to accelerate its transition from R&D collaborations to wider commercialization through upcoming fundraising. The company sees delivery science as mission-critical for translating biological promise into commercially viable agricultural products.
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China beats the U.S. in feed production, while Brazil is the third-largest feed producer.
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John Deere is providing multiple points of entry to its precision agriculture tools.
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