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The UK orchard fruit industry was worth £293.4M in 2023, but unsated demand for home-grown fruit meant that £99M worth of plum and sweet cherry were imported in 2023 (DefraStats). Optimum nutrition of UK orchard crops is essential to ensure high yields of phytonutritious fruit with good storage potential, but there are no robust grower guidelines. Consequ...

Project SIERRA will create digital twins of berry farms and permit asset management optimisation without requiring large capital expenditure. Most importantly it will allow producers to more _accurately model yields_, _find hotspots of problem areas_ and target the reduced workforce to increase efficiency. Notably the project will enable farms to maximise...

Current tree fruit production applies crop management products uniformly across each orchard, however, orchards exhibit substantial variation across them and between trees. Even neighbouring trees have very different growth and crop loads. Treating all trees uniformly regardless of their size, density, crop load, or health limits yield, is inefficient, an...

This project addresses UK food security challenges amidst a climate crisis by offering a game-changing solution to **transform inefficient TCEA** (total controlled environment agriculture) operations into sustainable, **energy-efficient crop growing systems**. By collaborating to integrate innovative technologies, the project will characterise and demonst...

University of Lincoln and Xihelm are collaborating to deliver _Qualicrop_ - aiming to develop crop sorting for produce, lowering costs to consumers. It will build sophisticated sorting systems to disintermediate the supply chain - unlocking technology only available to other sectors, improving the quality of sold fruit & vegetables and lowering prices to ...

The proposed industrial focused research project utilises the consortium's unique expertise and capabilities to develop **cost-effective digital autonomous slug monitoring, forecasting and precision treatment tools,** thus delivering on-farm game-changing solutions to benefit farmers across England. Slugs are major economic pests causing £43.5M crop damag...

This project develops an integrated, digital crop management approach for the early detection of glasshouse pests and diseases, utilising the latest diagnostic technology and agronomic knowledge in a commercial production setting. The objective is to co-develop a crop scouting service, informed by spectral diagnostics that can detect the early establishme...

FOTENIX has helped support recent advancements in the agricultural technology sector, working as an ability provider for some of the biggest agrirobotics providers in the UK. These interactions have shaped the development of precision agriculture, pushing the boundaries of production capability and performance amidst the fourth agricultural revolution. Th...

This project provides step-change advances towards enabling Vertical farming (VF) technologies. In comparison to traditional agriculture, these systems reduce water usage, eliminate the use of agrochemicals and provide year-round, local production. We look to increase the adoption of sustainable food growing systems, which reduces the environmental impact...

Since their widespread commercialisation in the 1930's, the use of pesticides has driven increased yields in agriculture that have allowed us to feed an ever-growing human population. However, with raised awareness of the potentially negative environmental impacts of these products, future food production systems will need to continue to sustain our dieta...

This project entails the construction of the ALPHA AI cloud platform for the precision agriculture sector. FOTENIX currently produces multispectral 3D cameras with particular use cases, e.g. disease detection in strawberries. The products are developed in conjunction with machinery/robotics providers and trained on trial data before being deployed in the ...

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