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Mark Golder: ‘Cacao-based chocolate will become increasingly premium, and for everything else, there’s Win-Win’ 👉Read the full story here:

Generating and screening new plant varieties takes time and money, claims AgFunder portfolio co Amatera, which reckons it can save significant amounts of both by high throughput screening of new varieties at the plant cell culture stage. 👉Full story:

Argentina-based startup BioClé is tackling a key challenge in nutraceuticals with a novel delivery system designed to protect bioactives from degradation in the digestive tract and deliver them to their target cells.

Primient’s iPROOF facility aims to bridge biotech’s valley of death

Finnish insect ag firm Volare opens 5,000-ton protein factory in Finland, explores 2nd plant

‘No acceptable offers’ for Liberation Bioindustries as firm seeks to plug $25m funding gap

Unnamed bidder submits letter of intent to acquire Believer Meats’ US cultivated meat site

Earth Rover bets on pulsed light to tackle weeds without chemicals #agrobotics #agtech @WorldAgriTech @earth_rover 👉Read the full story @AgFunder News:

ORTH bridges the gap between raw agronomic data and execution. Discover how Citri&Co is transforming daily field intelligence into high-certainty decisions across 70+ countries. #SponsoredPost

Lumi AI finds new home at Newforma as agentic analytics gathers pace

Israeli startup Brevel teams up with The Wave Group to scale ‘illuminated fermentation’ in India #microalgae #fermentation #plantcellculture

Layoffs at Carbon Robotics as firm “realigns costs due to broader economic conditions”

.@reservoirfarms expands to Pacific Northwest to accelerate physical AI #agrobotics #agtech #robotics

IMIO raises $12m to unlock nutrients trapped in crop residues with new generation of ‘dependable ag biologicals’

.@kodamasystems nets $7m to scale physical AI for ‘intelligent forestry’ @konvoycapital

🎥 SenseUP aims to take RNAi pesticides from niche to mainstream

UK Agri-Tech Centre to slash workforce by 60% in strategic pivot to new operating model

OlsAro raises $5.5m seed round as salt-tolerant wheat nears market

Molagri raises $5.8m to build ‘updatable’ biopesticides

Neutralizing the “off switch” for starch production in plants could be the key to unlocking higher yields and boosting resilience across a vast swath of crops, says Israeli startup ClimateCrop at @WorldAgriTech 👉Full details here: