Can a pollinating robot from Israel shake up Australia's $900 million greenhouse tomato industry?
An Israeli company that has created an autonomous pollinating robot has started its first trials in Australia.Australia's $900-million-a-year greenhouse tomato industry currently relies on farmers pollinating by hand
Chief executive Iddo Geltner said after successful trials in Israel, the company had targeted Australia because it did not have bumblebees. "The greenhouse sector is huge and growing around the world at a steady pace of more than 5 per cent a year," he said. "So it's very labour intensive and probably adds about $25,000 a hectare to the production of greenhouse tomatoes."See the latest news and information from the agriculture and mining industries, including weather and the markets, on ABC Rural.
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