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BloomX: Robotic pollination increases crop yield by 10% to 40% over bees
“In compare to any bees, when we apply those, you know, machines, we see a range of between 10 to 40% of yield increase to cause get of using our services.”
Sade: Artificial pollination tech must focus on plants, not insects
“We should focus on the plant, not on the insect, in order to understand the mechanism and how we can enhance the activity on the plant.”
Sade: Pollination is primary limiting factor for avocado orchard yields
“Avocados and other crops that we are dealing with, pollination is a limiting factor for yield. Okay. So there is a very big gap that we can increase the yield responsibly without taking too much resources from the trees.”
Sade: Around 80% of commercial crops rely on insect pollination
“So around 80% of the commercial growing crops that we use today are pollinated by insects. The other 20% are pollinated by wind.”
Global farmland growth outpaced an 81% increase in honeybee hives
“The number of honeybee hives Has increased from the 19 sixties to today by around 81%, but the number of land that needs pollination globally in the same time grew much more, and that's what created this big gap that you know today”
BloomX uses electrostatic forces and friction to pollinate crops
“Another mechanism that we are applying, for example, is basically electrostatic forces to collect the pollen out of the flowers and then apply them by friction.”
BloomX algorithms forecast optimal crop pollination windows using field data
“We have an algorithm that allows us to understand how environmental conditions affect the flying behavior for every crop that we are working on that give us the right pollination window to pollinate and create a forecast of the pollination season based on real…”
BloomX: Robotic pollinator covers up to 20 hectares in six days
“It can do up to 20 hectares a week in six days.”
BloomX develops tractor-mounted mechanical CrossBee electrostatic pollination system
“That's the manual version that we have today. We're also developing a mechanical version, which is basically Big mechanical arms that have big electrodes, big plates, flexible plates that they attach to a tractor or pickup.”
An avocado tree produces one million flowers but only 200 fruits
“Avocados have one million flowers in a season of one month and a half. Guy Raz: One avocado tree. Tai Sade: Yeah. Eventually out of it, if you love 200 fruits from an avocado tree, that would be amazing.”
Sade: Israeli kibbutzim invented drip irrigation out of water scarcity
“And I think that a lot of the innovations that we have came from the, from kibbutzes. So the irrigation pipes that were invented by Netafim. That's a kibbutz in Israel that basically that sits on the desert. Basically invented that because they needed to contr…”