DAY ONETuesday, 20 September 2022 - MT (Mexican Pacific Time, GMT-07:00)

• How has the biopesticide market changed over the past 12 months?
• What is the estimated size of the market today and what are our future projections for market growth
• Biostimulant market: size, growth and newcomers to industry

Discover the latest crop analysis trends, market statistics and insights into crop production and the seed markets.

• ‘Crop scouts’ walks among the plants vs automated crop analysis to assess crop health and performance
• Addressing the challenges and opportunities within crop scouting: can we trust human opinions?
• challenges and opportunities in using deep learning to assess crops and, ultimately, use that data to create vast digitized database phenotypes of every genotype of every crop given different recipes of water, light and nutrients
• The benefits of using robots for crop analysis: price analysis and a further analysis of the crop
• Creating a vast digitized database phenotype of every genotype of every crop given different recipes of water, light and nutrients

• What investments banks and governments are seeking and expecting around the world
• Are we seeing return of investment in the AgTech and biological space?
• Is the growth expected to continue or is it slowing down?
• Area of investment: exciting opportunities
• Investment Opportunities Global Overview: Value from Precision Agriculture & AgTech (vs Hype)
• An insight on what investment firms are looking for in the Precision Agriculture and AgTech Sectors
• How can the government help?

• Developing products with efficacy that is on par with chemical pesticides
• Understanding mode of action and how such technology really works whilst remaining non toxic to the environment
• A success story- from research and development to being used in the field
• Learnings: the challenges and how they were overcome and the market access journey

There has been major demand on the part of conventional and organic growers for natural means of biofumigation to bolster soil’s microbiome and overcome pesticide-resistance issues. At BioGro Inc, between 2019 and 2021, we established randomized complete block designs to evaluate the efficacy of our non-fume program in strawberries. These were undertaken in growers’ fields. We specifically assessed the program efficacies for verticillium wilt and phytophthora. These were conducted in Washington State and California, respectively.

In Wisconsin, we implemented the same experimental protocols in potatoes for verticillium dahlia, pratylenchus (root lesions), and five other species of nematodes. We assessed vigor, normalized differences in red edge, normalized difference in vegetable indexes, plant height, marketable yield count, marketable yield weight, along with conducting statistical analyses to measure yield differences.

The analysis of variance results demonstrated statistically significant differences and promising results in some of the experiments. For example, for the California strawberries, phytophthora studies by independent researchers highlight gross returns per acre of as much as $7,000, compared to the standard fumigant treatment. This is promising for improving soil health and bolstering methods of disease suppression.

To that end, we will continue to do more research and further analyze the various modes of actions in our non-fume program.