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Linux Foundation starts landmark open source agtech project, AgStack
Linux Foundation starts landmark open source agtech project, AgStack
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Linux Foundation starts landmark open source agtech project, AgStack
By Investable UniverseMay 5, 2021No Comments
On Wednesday, Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization that seeks
to enable mass innovation through open source technology, announced
the launch of the AgStack Foundation, the first open source digital
infrastructure project designed specifically for the global
agriculture ecosystem.
AgStack Foundation will improve global agriculture efficiency through
the creation, maintenance and enhancement of free, reusable, open and
specialized digital infrastructure for farming data and applications.
Founding members and contributors include leaders from both the
technology and agriculture industries, spanning sectors and
geographies. Members and partners include Agralogics, Call for Code,
Centricity Global, Digital Green, Farm Foundation, farmOS, HPE, IBM,
Mixing Bowl & Better Food Ventures, NIAB, OpenTeam, Our Sci, Produce
Marketing Association, Purdue University / OATS & Agricultural
Informatics Lab, the University of California Agriculture and Natural
Resources (UC-ANR) and University of California Santa Barbara
SmartFarm Project.
"The global agriculture ecosystem desperately needs a digital
makeover. There is too much loss of productivity and innovation due
to the absence of re-usable tools and data. I'm excited to lead this
community of leaders, contributors and members - from across sectors
and countries - to help build this common and re-usable resource -
AgStack - that will help every stakeholder in global agriculture with
free and open digital tools and data," said Sumer Johal, Executive
Director of AgStack.
Linux Foundation noted in its official AgStack announcement on
Wednesday that 33 percent of all food produced is wasted, while nine
percent of the people in the world are hungry or undernourished.
These societal drivers are compounded with legacy technology systems
that are too slow and inefficient and can't work across the growing
and more complex agricultural supply chain. AgStack will use
collaboration and open source software to build a 21st century
digital infrastructure that it says will be a catalyst for innovation
on new applications, efficiencies and scale.
"The explosion of agri-tech innovations from large companies to
startups to governments to non-profits represents a game changer for
farmers in both the Global South and North," said Rikin Gandhi,
Co-founder and Executive Director of AgStack partner Digital Green.
"At the same time, it's critical that we build digital infrastructure
that ensures that the impact of these changes enables the aspirations
of those most marginalized and builds their resilience, particularly
in the midst of climate change."
AgStack consists of an open repository to create and publish models,
free and easy access to public data, interoperable frameworks for
cross-project use and topic-specific extensions and toolboxes. It
will leverage existing technologies such as agriculture standards
(AgGateway, UN-FAO, CAFA, USDA and NASA-AR); public data (Landsat,
Sentinel, NOAA and Soilgrids; models (UC-ANR IPM), and open source
projects like Hyperledger, Kubernetes, Open Horizon, Postgres, Django
and more.
"We're pleased to provide the forum for AgStack to be built and to
grow," said Mike Dolan, general manager and senior vice president of
projects at the Linux Foundation. "It's clear that by using open
source software to standardize the digital infrastructure for
agriculture, that AgStack can reduce cost, accelerate integration and
enable innovation. It's amazing to see industries like agriculture
use open source principles to innovate."
Precision AI
The AgStack announcement follows other major funding news in the
agtech space this week. On Tuesday, Canadian farm robotics company
Precision AI announced that it has successfully closed a $20 million
seed round, led by GoogleX co-founder Tom Chi's At One Ventures,
together with BDC Capital's Industrial Innovation Venture Fund,
Fulcrum Global Capital and Golden Opportunities Fund.
Funds will be used to support the advancement of Precision AI's
disruptive precision farming platform that deploys swarms of
AI-powered drones to dramatically reduce herbicide use in row crop
agriculture.
According to Precision AI, herbicide spraying is one of the least
efficient agricultural activities, with over 80 percent wasted on
bare ground and another 15 percent falling on the crop. While
competitors have focused on high-value, low acreage crops, Precision
AI says its technology can be applied to large acreage crops at a
much lower cost than traditional large farming machinery, potentially
reducing pesticide use by up to 95% while maintaining crop yield and
saving farmers up to $52 per acre per growing season.
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