Paris, 13 January 2017
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INNOVATIVE FARMING START-UPS OUT IN FORCE AT SIMA 2017! At its upcoming 2017 edi on, SIMA (26 February – 2 March 2017 at Paris-Nord Villepinte Exhibi on Centre) will be bringing together French and interna onal start-ups. Reflec ng the 2017 theme "Being a Farmer in 10 years", around fi een of them will congregate in the Start-up Village, organised in associa on with La Ferme Digitale*, a forum offering a pla orm for social networking sites, on-line comparators, management so ware, service providers, applica ons, and more. Other start -ups will have their own stands in the surrounding exhibi on aisles. Their common denominator is that they all develop innova ve solu ons in step with a profoundly-changing farming sector.
ON-BOARD ELECTRONICS, NEW TECHNOLOGY Airinov: a pioneer in farm drones offering the first measurement sensor for crop growth, developed in partnership with the French research agency INRA. Carbon Bee: a tool to assess plant health, enabling treatments to be op mised and diseases to be tracked by capturing data using a drone, a robot or a tractor. ConnectAgri.fr: a connected device aimed at agricultural equipment sharing clubs, which automa cally calculates the use of each machine to enable simple cost-alloca on. Exo c Systems: supplies vehicles, buildings and fields with connected solu ons to help achieve higher efficiency on farms and be er yield from all farm processes. Naïo Technologies: farm robots and electric tools to help farmers in their tasks by lightening their workload, improving farm profitability and reducing environmental impact. Sunibrain: an ar ficial intelligence robot which improves the precision of solar panel management in order to achieve the highest return. Visio-Green Agriculture: connected solu ons (sensors, data analysis, apps, etc.) to contribute to the improvement of opera onal efficiency on farms. Weenat: solu ons including connected sensors which supply real- me farm and weather informa on on the parcel, linking up with an app and with decision-making tools.
SERVICES AND ADVICE Agriconomie.com: the first online marketplace en rely dedicated to farmers’ supplies (seeds, parts, equipment, fer lisers, etc.). Agrifind: a social networking pla orm allowing members to offer the benefit of their exper se to other farmers in search of tangible solu ons. ComparateurAgricole.com: the first online farm comparator on which farmers can sell their harvest or buy their fer liser. E-farm.com: a supplier of a full range of services for the global resale of used farm machinery. Ekylibre: farm management so ware for the agriculture of the future, with the aim of freeing up farmers from their administra ve burdens (500 hours per year on average) . PiloterSaFerme.com: decision making informa on pla orm enabling the modelling of individual commercial strategies (buying and selling) from a proprietary algorithm.
SOCIAL PLATFORMS, MANAGEMENT ASSISTANCE 365Farmnet.com: a social pla orm which connects up knowledge, informa on and resources allowing the farmer to manage their farm and work with their partners using a single so ware solu on. Easystocktyre.fr: first social pla orm developed for distributors of farm tyres (specialist wholesalers and farm equipment dealers).
January - February 2017
[26] FARMERS REVIEW AFRICA
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