SYIELD: Networked Mimic Sensors for Crop Enhancement & Disease Control
Lead Participant:
SYNGENTA LIMITED
Abstract
The project will enable growers to produce more food with fewer inputs, through an integrated farm management strategy. This optimises the Crop Protection (CP) using a network of in-field biosensors which then interact to form a UK, and international, infrastructure. This will be combined with the dual-action disease control and crop enhancement offered by a subset of CP chemistries. Initial adoption will be for Sclerotinia in UK Oil Seed Rape (OSR) integrated with Syngenta's dual-mode Amistar chemistry. UK technology companies will manufacture the sensor nodes which then link, alongside satellite crop-usage data, into a GIS web portal accessible as a commercial service to; farmers, agronomists, government and other agri-food stakeholders.
Lead Participant | Project Cost | Grant Offer |
|---|---|---|
| SYNGENTA LIMITED | £909,768 | £ 92,000 |
Participant |
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| APPLIED ENZYME TECHNOLOGY LIMITED | £114,831 | £ 54,901 |
| UNISCAN INSTRUMENTS LIMITED | £114,515 | £ 57,395 |
| BURKARD MANUFACTURING COMPANY LIMITED | £93,976 | £ 46,988 |
| ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH LIMITED | £360,645 | |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER | £411,780 | £ 411,780 |
| VELCOURT LIMITED | £114,149 | £ 57,075 |
| SYNGENTA SEEDS LIMITED | £54,056 | £ 5,406 |
| DMC INTERNATIONAL IMAGING LTD | £350,342 | £ 174,996 |
People |
ORCID iD |
| Ruth Herbert (Project Manager) |