Razbio Limited

Razbio Ltd. delivers natural, safe solutions for crop production, disease prevention, and integrated pest management, reducing reliance on toxic pesticides. Supported by funding from Innovate UK's Analysis for Innovators (A4I) initiative and in collaboration with ASTUTE, a leader in advanced testing technologies, Razbio aims to revolutionise pest monitori...

The project represents a transformative approach to developing and optimizing biodegradable dispensers tailored for monitoring Western Flower Thrips (WFT) and other insect pests. Leveraging cutting-edge extrusion-compounding technology, we aim to refine dispenser designs to enhance control precision and the sequential release of active ingredients. This i...

Insect pests cause serious damage to food crops thus threatening food security. Monitoring insect pests is vital to limit the damage they cause, however, it requires specialist knowledge to identify pests and intensive farm visits, which farmers can't afford to do. Recent developments in the use of computing technology and image analysis offer opportuniti...

Western Flower thrips (WFT) are an important agricultural pest of several crops including protected vegetables and soft fruit crops (1). WFT cause direct damage by feeding on the plant as well as through transmission of different diseases. WFT affected crops not only reduce the crop yield but also affect the crop quality e.g. deformed strawberries thereby...

This study focuses on improving the monitoring and control of **_Aedes_** mosquitoes (_Aedes aegypti, Aedes albopictus_) which vector dengue. Over half the world's population is at risk of being infected with dengue with low income groups being particularly affected. In Pakistan, dengue outbreaks are regular and quite extensive, causing considerable hards...