“One clear message is that business as usual is not an option. Major transformations of agricultural systems, rural economies and natural resource management are needed” – FAO, 2017.
We agree that doing nothing is not an option. Innovation and technology are essential to economic and environmentally sustainable food production for this generation and for future generations.
At the start of this Century, global food loss and waste amount to between one-third and one-half of all food produced.
Crop variability within a field decreases marketable yield. Understanding and reducing the field variability of a crop will yield higher returns for the supply chain.
Understanding your crop, looking after it during harvest, storage and processing will prevent waste and increase the value of the crop.
We are experts in extracting new compounds from crop residues and outgrade materials as a source of fuel or nutritional ingredient in the food supply chain.
We use machine learning to interpret high volume data from visual, electromagnetic, satellite and environmental sensors to identify significant factors which can impact or promote crop performance, marketable yield, and waste
Create a product from concept through to delivery, undertaking the manufacture, product support and ongoing development
We create actionable intelligence from understanding of data and production context
Our data scientists identify key patterns and trends in crop data to provide agronomic insights
We have web, cloud and mobile-based development teams to create technological tools for data collection, analysis and presentation
Our in house experts in plant science understand crop responses and interactions with their environment to better understand how to maximise crop value
We design and fabricate electronic, mechanical, sensor, data collection, control and robotic systems
Our management teams are experienced at delivering small and large scale projects both commercially and public-funded. We work successfully with a wide range of collaborators, both industry and academic
We create vision and imaging, environmental, gas and chemical and electromagnetic sensors
B-hive work with a range of customers to understand the specific challenges they face, and develop innovative solutions to solve these issues. Our previous experience ranges from in-field solutions to storage systems, to post-processing value extraction.
We aim to pull technology from industry challenges, rather than push them onto end users.
Please get in touch if you have an industry challenge you would like to discuss.
The company has been a great success across many projects, working with several collaborators, partners and clients across the industry. Taking projects from concept through to commercial product.
We take on private, commercially commissioned, R&D projects, as well as collaborating with partners in funded projects (such as those from Innovate UK).
The B-hive team is full of bright-minded individuals each having a key role in the business. Expertise ranges from machine learning, product development, data science, software development and project management. We pride ourselves in out of the box thinking, bringing new ideas and concepts from other industries into agriculture.
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AGRITECH R&D business B-Hive Innovations is leading the way in crop valorisation after developing a new process that will extract food-grade functional protein from potatoes.