Ceres Agri-Tech

Dr Louise SutherlandDirector, Ceres Agri-Tech

Ceres Agri-Tech Success

Ceres Agri-Tech Partnership

Ceres Investment Committee

Jim Godfrey (Chair) - Chair of: NIAB; Innovate UK’s Sustainable Agriculture and Food Innovation Platform; Trustees IRRI; Commercial Farmers Group. UK Agri-Tech Strategy’s Leadership Council, President of RASE, Director of Lincs Rural Support Network, faculty member of the CGIAR Board Training Programme

Mark Suthern former Head of Agriculture, Barclays BankSarah Blanford Crop, Organic and Data Manager, Sainsbury’sRichard Williamson former MD of Beeswax Dyson FarmingDavid Lawrence Chair of UK KTN Ltd and ex Syngenta board memberVivek Dogra Venture partner at European Circular Bioeconomy FundIain Thomas Head of Life Sciences, Cambridge Enterprise, Uni CambridgeJon Carter Head of Innovation, Research and Innovation Services, UEAAnna Macready, Consumer Behaviour and Marketing, Uni ReadingStephanie Maloney, Head of Research and Industrial Partnerships, Uni. LincolnPeter Gooden, Head of Innovation, Uni Herts

Robotic fruit pickingPotential solution to the labour crisis but• Fruits grown in complex clusters • Whole crop harvesting is challenging

• Ceres is funding a robotic picking head that can pick:- delicate ripe fruit - in complex clusters - without damaging them

Disease resistant bananas

• Panama disease devastating Cavendish bananas- Costing ca $0.14bn p.a.- 10,000 ha lost to date

• No disease resistance

• Ceres is funding the development and scale up of novel non-GM technology to generate disease resistant bananas

Agriculture 5.0: Unleashing AI• AI not reaching its full potential to transform horticulture and

agriculture• Limiting use of intelligent technology on farms• Ceres is funding a 5G pipeline to allow:

- Vast quantities of data to move rapidly between devices- Growers to deploy AI driven smart agri-tech- Increase productivity and reduce overall costs

Thank you

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