Elevator Pitch
Farmers are spraying more chemicals for diminishing returns as weeds and pests adapt. AI vision, cheap sensors, precision robotics and new biology could cut pesticide use while raising yields.
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Agriculture runs on chemicals, and the loop is breaking: residues turn up in food, water and soil, weeds and pests evolve, farmers spray more as costs climb, and new chemicals are slower and more expensive to develop. Farmers can't simply stop, because crop losses mean higher food prices.
What changed: AI can now spot single weeds and pests as they appear, cameras and sensors have become cheap, robots can treat one plant instead of a whole field, and biology (microbes, peptides, RNA-based approaches, engineered plants) can replace whole classes of synthetic chemicals.
The ask: tools that help farmers grow more food with far fewer chemicals.
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