Start-Up Nation Central Agrifood-Tech

agrifood-tech is technological innovation in the production of food. the sector comprises solutions for agricultural inputs, growing food, harvesting it, packaging, storage, transporting, and processing – making the farm-to-table process more efficient, sustainable, and safe. israel has one of the world’s leading agrifood-tech sectors. its dynamism and global competitiveness result from several converging factors. these include a prominent it scene, exposure to cutting-edge tech during military service, lessons learned from farming to survive despite a lack of natural resources, and a highly entrepreneurial culture. the outcome of these factors is innovative technologies for “growing more with less,” even decades before this goal became global. the range of israel’s agrifood-tech innovation is broad and varied, including in-soil and in-tree sensors, swarming robot drones, plant-genetics platforms, cultured meat and plant-based alternative proteins, smart irrigation, big-data-analytics