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The technology will provide: (1) 10x efficiency upgrade compared to current technology, (2) increase food production output, (3) decrease the use of resources and CO2 emissions.
About
We believe the most important questions in global agriculture today are: - How can we produce more food (so we can feed everyone in 2050)? - How can we do it in a sustainable way? - And how can we do it with fewer resources? AgroWings is our best answer to these questions. We are on a journey to build an agricultural spraying technology that: - is 10 times more efficient compared to current technologies, - increases food production, - and reduce carbon emissions by almost 2/3 of what we use today for spraying. The core concept and innovation is to expand the spraying lane width tenfold by replacing the mechanical booms on spraying vehicles to spraying bars that fly over the land thanks to lifting rotors. The wider coverage and our technology innovation have several important benefits: - Reducing trampling loss to almost 0, which potentially means 2-5% increase in yields, - Decreasing labour force and time for spraying by a factor of 10, - Enabling spraying during times when otherwise it is not possible, which could potentially add another 4% to yearly gains, - Better pesticide and herbicide drift control, - Saving fuel by around 60% , - and the capability of enhanced AI integration.
Key Benefits
The wider coverage and our technology innovation have several important benefits: - Reducing trampling loss to almost 0, which potentially means 2-5% increase in yields, - Decreasing labour force and time for spraying by a factor of 10, - Enabling spraying during times when otherwise it is not possible, which could potentially add another 4% to yearly gains, - Better pesticide and herbicide drift control, - Saving fuel by around 60% , - and the capability of enhanced AI integration. Using our technology on a global scale would have a directly measurable impact beyond producing more food. We could potentially save around 1.2 Bn liters of fuel annually which translates to decreasing carbon emission by 3.3 megatons.
Applications
Our technology can totally excel in agricultures with higher average land size however, it can greatly increase productivity and save costs with smaller average plot sizes as well. Our target customers are those farmers who already use spraying machines, planning to purchase in the near future and those contractors who do spraying as a business model. The calculated price of our vehicle would be closely in the same range as the price of self-propelled sprayers today and this means that for around the same price, farmers could access to: - great efficiency increase, - higher yields, - lower costs, and we would greatly reduce our carbon footprint.