UK ag gene-editing startup Tropic Biosciences has raised $35 million for its latest funding round, it announced today.
Tropic Biosciences is applying gene-editing techniques to make crop production more sustainable, with a focus on creating high-performance varieties of three key tropical commodity crops: banana, coffee, and rice.
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Africa’s ag fintech space received the least venture capital funding of any global region in 2021, with North America and India leading the world with respective totals of...
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In response to a rising threat of outbreaks in livestock, researchers at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario developed a rapid test to quickly identify hogs infected with Porcine...
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In a major step on the road to digitizing the ag supply chain, grain trading platform Bushel has launched a new software platform that facilitates digital payments between...
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