Annual Awards Program Recognizes Innovation in Agricultural & Food Technologies Around the Globe

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Agbotic, the leader in SmartFarm automation with decarbonized and denitrified, soil greenhouses, today announced its 2022 AgTech Breakthrough award for “Greenhouse Production System of the Year.” The 2022 AgTech Breakthrough Award is conducted by AgTech Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies and products in global agricultural and food technology markets.

Agbotic builds SmartFarms with a big data and deep learning model to grow year-round, local and organic crops with the industry’s lowest production costs and a leading, regenerative climate footprint. The Company’s unique, patented and patents-pending automation and AI capability integrate with traditional farms and renewable energy SmartGrids with a tech stack that extends to outdoor farming.

Because Agbotic grows in soil, it can easily switch crop types to grow leafy greens; culinary and medicinal herbs; root crops; and long-cycle woody stem crops. Agbotic has successfully grown ginger, figs and inputs for plant-based beverages and personal care products. Across these crop types, Agbotic uses precision machines to gather high resolution, hyper-variate data for machine learning to achieve consistent gains in crop yields and lower production costs. In the past 24 months, Agbotic has generated yield gains from 50-100% across multiple organic, chemical-free crops and the production costs for a number of its crops are now competitive with outdoor, conventional/chemical farming.

“We are honored to win this amazing AgTech Breakthrough award during a time when news cycles are dominated by climate, inflation, food security and food prices. Our proprietary tech enables the production of local, secure, low-cost food while drawing down carbon and cleaning the air, water and soil,” said John Gaus, CEO at Agbotic. “Much of agriculture can and should be profitably distributed into community scale production systems to reinvigorate rural economies; make lower cost and healthier food; draw down carbon; and clean the environment. Our decarbonized, denitrified, and digitized approach does just that. One day soon, every community will want a SmartFarm.”

The mission of the annual AgTech Breakthrough Awards program is to conduct the industry’s most comprehensive analysis and evaluation of agricultural and food technology categories, including Internet-of-Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) based agricultural technologies, farm management, indoor farming, food quality, data analytics and many more. This year’s program attracted more than 1,600 nominations from over 15 countries around the world.

“The last two years serve to remind us about the importance of food security. Agbotic’s model has put good, healthy food on the shelf of most of the major retailers and on the trucks of most of the major food distributors in New York State. We expect it could do the same in many places with tremendous value to people and the planet.” said Bryan Vaughn, Managing Director, AgTech Breakthrough. “We congratulate Agbotic on their work and this important award.”

About Agbotic
Agbotic builds highly differentiated SmartFarm technology for distributed, organic farming. The company’s proprietary technology for soil agriculture can grow more crop types than typical hydroponic greenhouses and does so without the use of synthetic (Haber-Bosch) nitrogen fertilizers used in most hydroponic operations. Agbotic grows crops without the use of chemicals; with 90% less water; and utilizes a deep data learning model. Agbotic crops are certified organic by the USDA and the Real Organic Project. The Company operates its first SmartFarm in Sackets Harbor, NY, and sells fresh produce across New York State and into New England under its GoodHealthy® brand. The Company is expanding in North America and Europe and will establish manufacturing and distribution partners for other regions.

About AgTech Breakthrough
Part of Tech Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence and recognition platform for global technology innovation and leadership, the AgTech Breakthrough Awards program is devoted to honoring excellence in agricultural & food technologies, services, companies and products around the world. The AgTech Breakthrough Awards program provides a forum for public recognition around the achievements of AgTech companies and solutions in categories including farm management, indoor farming, FoodTech, automation, IoT and robotics, FoodTech, analytics and more. For more information visit AgTechBreakthrough.com.

Media Contact

Bryan Vaugh, AgTech Breakthrough Awards, 949.529.4120, Bryan@AgTechbreakthrough.com

John Gaus, Agbotic, (315)778-9664, gaus@agbotic.com

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