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Agriculture Technology is the application of technology to farming to improve yield, efficiency and profitability. Today we are on the cusp of the fourth agricultural revolution.
What will agritech mean for farming and farmers?
What will the farms of the future look like?
In the first episode of Global Trends, our guests Simone Scarabel, Amy Wu, Ömer Kuloğlu and David Rose explained everything about the topic!
Watch the first episode here!
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Simone Scarabel -
Amy Wu -
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Ömer Kuloglu
In this series
Trends & Talks
Guest Talk: Ömer Kuloğlu
Guest Talk: Amy Wu
Guest Talk: Simone Scarabel
Guest Talk: David Rose
Simone Scarabel
TECHNICAL SALES MANAGER, FREE GREEN NATURE
Simone Scarabel has been working in the industrial and electrotechnical field for many years.
He is Technical Sales Manager at Free Green Nature, an Italian start up that has developed the robot ICARO X4. The ICARO project was born in 1992 and today it has become reality.
Simone Scarabel has been working in the industrial and electrotechnical field for many years.
He is Technical Sales Manager at Free Green Nature, an Italian start up that has developed the robot ICARO X4. The ICARO project was born in 1992 and today it has become reality.
The robot ICARO X4 was designed to be used in vineyards and more generally for fruit plant grown in rows in order to eliminate the typical fungal diseases of the plants.
Free Green Nature has a strong commitment towards sustainability. In fact, they want to give to people healthy food grown in a healthy environment.
Free Green Nature has a strong commitment towards sustainability. In fact, they want to give to people healthy food grown in a healthy environment.
Amy Wu
FOUNDER, FROM FARMS TO INCUBATORS
Amy Wu is an award-winning writer for the Women’s Ag and AgTech Movement. She is the Founder & Chief Content Director of From Farms to Incubators, a multimedia platform that uses documentary, video, photography and the written word to tell the stories of women leaders and innovators in AgTech.
From Farms to Incubators has a mission of expanding the profiles of women in food, farming, and tech. In 2020 she made Worth Magazine’s “Groundbreakers 2020 list of 50 Women Changing the World.”
David Rose
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF AGRICULTURAL INNOVATION AND EXTENSION, UNIVERSITY OF READING
David Rose is an Elizabeth Creak Associate Professor of Agricultural Innovation and Extension. He is also a Geographer.
He runs the 'Change in Agriculture' research group at the School of Agriculture, University of Reading. A multi-disciplinary research group exploring the past, present, and future of farm innovation, specializing in work on adoption, behaviour change, inclusion, knowledge exchange, policy change, and the social and ethical impacts of innovation.
David Rose is also the Co-Director of the Centre for Effective Innovation in Agriculture.
Ömer Kuloglu
PRODUCER AND PRESENTER, TRAKTÖRMETRE
Ömer Kuloğlu is a mechanical engineer that has been working as a TV program producer and presenter since 2012 in the field of Tractors and Agricultural Technlogies.
During his work experience, he has worked with more than 1000 brands in the field of Agriculture.
In March 2019, he started his own company Traktörmetre – a review program of new tractor models in which Omer creates valuable contents for brands.
Moreover, Ömer is also a jury member of Tractor of the Year – an international award for the best tractor in the European market.
