The Canadian Agri-Food Automation and Intelligence Network (CAAIN) has announced funding of $106,467 to CropVue Technologies based in Surrey, British Columbia. It is the only horticulture-related project of six projects to be funded through its 2025 competitions.
CropVue Technologies is partnering with the Okanagan-Kootenay Sterile Insect Release program to develop an AI-enabled smart trap system to enhance orchard management and reduce pesticide use in apple and pear orchards.
For more details, link to:
https://caain.ca/projects/orchard-pest-management/
CAAIN’s mandate from Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) is to fund technological responses to the most significant opportunities and challenges facing the nation’s agri-food producers and primary processors. That means supporting promising efforts with the potential to provide economic or environmental value. The $1,705,402 that’s committed to these six worthy recipients will take CAAIN’s five-year investment total in emerging agtech to more than $38M; the $5,485,772 total value of the six winning projects elevates the total value of 48 supported innovations to more than $122M.
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