Agbotic awarded 'Greenhouse Production System of the Year' by AgTech Breakthrough

Agbotic, known for its SmartFarm automation with decarbonized and denitrified, soil greenhouses, has announced its 2022 AgTech Breakthrough award for 'Greenhouse Production System of the Year'. The 2022 AgTech Breakthrough Award is conducted by AgTech Breakthrough, a market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies and products in global agricultural and food technology markets.

Agbotic builds SmartFarms with a big data and deep learning model to grow year-round, local and organic crops with the industry’s lowest production costs and a leading, regenerative climate footprint. The company’s automation and AI capability integrate with traditional farms and renewable energy SmartGrids with a tech stack that extends to outdoor farming.

Because Agbotic grows in soil, it can easily switch crop types to grow leafy greens, culinary and medicinal herbs, root crops, and long-cycle woody stem crops. The company has successfully grown ginger, figs and inputs for plant-based beverages and personal care products. Across these crop types, Agbotic uses precision machines to gather high resolution, hyper-variate data for machine learning to achieve consistent gains in crop yields and lower production costs. In the past 24 months, Agbotic has generated yield gains from 50-100% across multiple organic, chemical-free crops and the production costs for a number of its crops are now competitive with outdoor, conventional/chemical farming.

“We are honored to win this amazing AgTech Breakthrough award during a time when news cycles are dominated by climate, inflation, food security and food prices," said John Gaus, CEO at Agbotic. "Our proprietary tech enables the production of local, secure, low-cost food while drawing down carbon and cleaning the air, water and soil. Much of agriculture can and should be profitably distributed into community scale production systems to reinvigorate rural economies, make lower cost and healthier food, draw down carbon, and clean the environment. Our decarbonized, denitrified, and digitized approach does just that. One day soon, every community will want a SmartFarm.”

The mission of the annual AgTech Breakthrough Awards program is to conduct the industry’s most comprehensive analysis and evaluation of agricultural and food technology categories, including Internet-of-Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) based agricultural technologies, farm management, indoor farming, food quality, data analytics and many more. This year's program attracted more than 1,600 nominations from over 15 countries around the world.

“The last two years serve to remind us about the importance of food security," said Bryan Vaughn, Managing Director, AgTech Breakthrough. "Agbotic’s model has put good, healthy food on the shelf of most of the major retailers and on the trucks of most of the major food distributors in New York State. We expect it could do the same in many places with tremendous value to people and the planet. We congratulate Agbotic on their work and this important award.”