Project title: Cultivating Digital AgTech NL-NZ
Project number: SMP-25015
Requesting country: New Zealand
Year: 2025
Budget: € 50,000
Project leader: Jochen Hemming
Knowledge institute: Wageningen University & Research
Project partners: BBleap

Summary

In November 2024 an Innovation Mission from The Netherlands to New Zealand: “Agtech, Robotization and Digitalization in Horticulture” took place. This Seed Money Project is the next step to really build and kick off collaborative projects. We bring together the relevant people on a scientific level but also from industry. The project will investigate future joint research and development on three topics, including overlap and cross-links between these topics. The topics are: Orchard precision spraying and monitoring; High throughput phenotyping; Novel fruit sensors.