The Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, Marie-Claude Bibeau, has provided more than $1 million in funding to SomaDetect Inc. and Vivid Machines Inc. announced through the AgriScience program to assist producers and improve farm management and increase bottom-line profits. Across Canada, startups are looking for innovations and technologies in agriculture to help solve farm managers’ challenges. With these technological advances, farmers will have access to the tools they need to maximize production, increase food supply, and boost economic growth. SomaDetect, based in Halifax, provides dairy farmers with data on milk quality, reproductive status, and herd health indicators from every cow in every milking, which can have a huge impact on their productivity. Using a budget of $707,873, this company combines sensors with artificial intelligence and provides information about milk quality at the right time at the farm level. In this way, farmers can closely monitor the information to ensure they keep their herd healthy and disease-free, thereby improving reproductive success rates and producing the best milk for consumers. Toronto-based Vivid Machines provides fruit and vegetable growers with a computer vision system that records the visible and chemical details of each plant in a crop, from bud to harvest. Using a budget of $390,297, the company uses sensor and vision technology below the leaf canopy to capture plant-level data. This helps growers measure the quantity and quality of each plant's fruit at the right time. As a result, they can better manage plant growth and predict its performance and detect diseases, pests, and nutrient deficiencies before they become harmful. This type of agritech helps producers maximize the volume and quality of food for Canadian and global consumers. The development of advanced technologies helps farm managers to save costs, increase efficiency in their daily activities, and do their part to better feed the growing world population. With this goal, the Canadian government continues to invest in agricultural innovation and on the other hand encourages knowledge sharing, and tries to bridge the information gap between scientists and farmers. With these events, it is believed that agriculture in Canada will improve a lot in the long run.

According to Marie-Claude Bibeau, Minister of Agriculture

“Research and innovation are vital to giving our farmers the tools they need to tackle farm management challenges and boost food security. These new technologies, developed by SomaDetect and Vivid Machines, will allow farms of all sizes to have access to information in formats they can use. Investments like these support growths in Canada’s agricultural sector.”

Conclusion

This decision made by the Canadian government will help the agriculture of this region and farm managers and also make it more profitable shortly and will also show the importance of using technology in agriculture to the whole world. Many programs were formed in this field, and the agritech program aims to accelerate the pace of innovation. by funding and supporting pre-commercial scientific activities and cutting-edge research supported by the government and other companies, these programs help Canada's agriculture and agri-food sector to Move towards progress.