Bayer partners with Prospera Technologies Inc. for digital farming solution
9 July 2020, Tel Aviv: Bayer has entered a strategic partnership with Prospera Technologies Inc. as part of its commitment to helping growers sustainably meet increasing global needs through digital solutions.
Prospera Technologies Inc. is a leading AI data analytics company, specializing in machine learning. With a focus on agriculture, Prospera provides a transformative, digital farming system to vegetable greenhouse growers worldwide that generates insights and optimizes the growing process.
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The collaboration brings together the strengths of Prospera’s data and AI capabilities with Bayer’s expertise in vegetable production, crop protection, and digital transformation, to provide an all-in-one, cloud-based service. This will help transform grower operations and enable greater access to high-quality fruits and vegetables.
The initial roll out and in-field exploration of the offering will begin in July 2020 in Mexico, an important market for disruptive innovation and global vegetable production.
Bayer and Prospera will collaborate with several key customers in the region to continuously adjust and enhance the digitized farming system. The model will expand globally in coming years based on growers’ needs and changing consumer demand.
The joint solution will enable vegetable greenhouse growers to make more timely and insightful decisions; help optimize both the profitability and sustainability of their crops and operations. Using Prospera’s data visualization and analysis platform, pepper growers will be able to apply precise quantities of water to specific locations in the greenhouse, enabling more efficient use of natural resources and yielding more sustainably grown produce.
