Increasing Adoption of Floating Fish Farms to Have Strong Impact on Aquaculture Businesses

BizVibe has identified the increasing adoption of floating fish farms as a major trend for the aquaculture industry. Aquaculture farm owners are increasing their adoption of floating fish farms. These structures are mounted with sensors that allow the remote monitoring of aquaculture parameters and ensure that product batches are properly accounted for from farm to […]

From Farms to Incubators: How Accelerators Act as a Springboard for Women in Agtech

Fatma Kaplan is the founder and CEO of Pheronym, an agtech startup that produces biopesticides that use pheromones (chemicals capable of acting like hormones to impact the behavior of the receiving individuals) to control a wide range of agricultural pests. The company’s mission is to help growers control pests in an eco-friendly way. Pheronym is […]

Underutilized Marine Organisms as Potential Aquaculture Feed Ingredients

Currently, much of the global aquaculture production is for fed organisms that rely heavily on formulated feed. Thus, the increase in aquaculture production has a generally linear relationship with the increase in feed production. The inclusion of fishmeal and fish oil, a common source of protein and lipids in aquafeeds in decades, has substantially declined […]

Global Agritech Markets, 2019-2020 & 2021-2027: Investments in Sophisticated Agriculture Technologies & Opportunities in the Increasing Scope of Big Data

North America led the agritech market with 38.59% revenue share in 2019, followed by APAC and Europe. Increasing organic and inorganic strategic developments – such as product launches, and mergers and acquisitions – among the market players support the Agritech market growth in North America. The North America agritech market has been analyzed on the […]

Iceland Shines Light on Aquaculture Stats

Iceland has just launched its first aquaculture dashboard, bringing near total transparency to the country’s growing fish farming sector. The online dashboard was unveiled by Fisheries Minister Kristján Þór Júlíusson, who described it as a ground-breaking step. It will highlight virtually everything connected with aquaculture including the number of fish under cultivation, salmon lice numbers, […]

A 20-Year Retrospective Review of Global Aquaculture

The sustainability of aquaculture has been debated intensely since 2000, when a review on the net contribution of aquaculture to world fish supplies was published in Nature. This paper reviews the developments in global aquaculture from 1997 to 2017, incorporating all industry sub-sectors and highlighting the integration of aquaculture in the global food system. Inland […]

CyberAg 2021 – Recorded FBI Panel: Cyber Threats in Food and Agriculture

Listen to CyberAg’s FBI panel recording: Cyber Threats in Food and Agriculture. According to the FBI, cybercrime in 2020 alone cost businesses $4.1 billion in losses stemming from ransomware, phishing, and business email compromise attacks. Personnel from the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Cyber Division and Baltimore Field Office provided information on current and projected cyber […]

CyberAg 2021 – Recorded Presentation: Finding A Balance Between Producer and AgTech Company in Data Usage

Listen to CyberAg’s recording: Finding A Balance Between Producer and AgTech Company in Data Usage. An agricultural drone-spraying platform, and an agtech entrepreneurial support organization with farmers at its core discuss data usage and ownership in the context of agtech companies and on-farm usage. They explore the delicate balance between optimizing data acquisition for startup […]

CyberAg 2021 – Recorded Precision Ag: A Supply Chain of Connected Technologies Presentation

Listen to CyberAg’s Precision Ag recording: A Supply Chain of Connected Technologies. Precision agriculture is a network of embedded and connected technologies that includes distributed sensor networks, global positioning systems, farm information systems, autonomous farm equipment, automated chemical sprayers and smart devices, all connected by the Internet. The Department of Homeland Security regards precision agriculture […]