{"id":71430,"date":"2016-06-15T15:37:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T15:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=16af107001068a911c2196013f33f58e"},"modified":"2016-06-15T15:37:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T15:37:00","slug":"news-story-improving-farming-with-satellites-business-projects-win-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=71430","title":{"rendered":"News story: Improving farming with satellites: business projects win funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>More than a dozen business projects have won a share of \u00a33 million to explore and develop new ways to improve food production using satellite technologies.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018Satellites to improve agri-food systems\u2019 competition was jointly funded by Innovate UK and the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nerc.ac.uk\/\">Natural Environment Research Council<\/a> and will support 4 collaborative research and development projects and 9 feasibility studies.<\/p>\n<p>An increasing world population, greater wealth in developing countries and the trend towards urbanisation are all putting an increasing strain on the world\u2019s food supplies.<\/p>\n<p>Satellite technology and increased use of data are already helping to increase agricultural productivity in a sustainable way.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/collections\/innovate-uk-health-and-life-sciences\">Find out more about how Innovate UK is working to improve agricultural productivity.<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"projects-aim-to-improve-farm-productivity\">Projects aim to improve farm productivity<\/h2>\n<p>Among the projects approved for funding are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>creation of a UK soil map to enable precision farming techniques led by <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ag-space.com\/\">AgSpace<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>a satellite-data based management tool for pasture led by <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rezatec.com\/\">Rezatec<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>development of a drone crop spraying system led by <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vtol-technologies.com\/\">VTOL Technologies<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>a study into increasing farm productivity through satellite broadband on farms without 3G\/4G coverage led by <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.avantiplc.com\/\">Avanti Communications<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>a study into geolocation tracking of extensive livestock systems led by Hoofprints Technologies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The projects involve a total of 21 businesses and 11 universities and research organisations including the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/sa.catapult.org.uk\/\">Satellite Applications Catapult<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/innovation-apply-for-a-funding-award\">Find out more about winning funding from Innovate UK.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 20 businesses have won funding for projects that investigate use of satellite technology to improve farming systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71430"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71456,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71430\/revisions\/71456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}