Tag: AgriTech

La Trobe Uni opens $8m BioTech and AgriTech innovation hub

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
A new BioTech hub located at La Trobe University’s Melbourne campus has launched, offering world-class wet lab facilities to early-stage companies looking to commercialise their research. The $8 million...

v2food recognised for Food and Agritech innovations

Posted on   |  by Stuart Mason
Sydney-based company v2food has won the InnovationAus 2023 Award for Excellence in the Food and Agritech category for its cutting-edge protein-based meat 2.0. The InnovationAus 2023 Awards for Excellence...

V2food takes alt-meat mainstream

Posted on   |  by Stuart Mason
Using cutting-edge technology and Australia’s best researchers, V2food has created what it has dubbed Version 2 of meat. The Australian company spun out of CSIRO now supplies its meat-free,...

The home-grown IoT tech combating food waste

Posted on   |  by Stuart Mason
Every year in Australia about 5 million tonnes of food goes to waste and has to be thrown out. This amount of wasted food is worth $20 billion. And...

Two AgriTech support programs open

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Two programs supporting innovative SMEs in the agrifood sector, run by the national science agency CSIRO and federally funded innovation network AgriFutures, have opened to applications. CSIRO’s Innovate to...

GreenTech opportunity ‘phenomenal’ in Australia: Bill Gates

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates was surprised by the former Coalition government’s lack of ‘climate commitments’, despite the economic advantages that the energy transition presents to Australia. The world’s seventh wealthiest...

Cloud spectrometer reduces soil test costs for farmers

Posted on   |  by Jennifer O’Brien
Founded in Newcastle in regional NSW, Hone Carbon has commercialised innovative new ways to measure carbon in soil, unlocking the potential for carbon storage in Australia’s agricultural environments. According...

‘Shifting spectrum of sunlight’ to boost plant growth

Posted on   |  by Jennifer O’Brien
The story of LLEAF, which stands for luminescent light emitting agricultural film, began at the University of NSW when Dr Alex Falber invented novel light shifting dyes, according to...