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With autonomous drones, computer vision and AI, forecast yield >90% accuracy to plan harvests and logistics, price the produce and improve profit margins.
About
Polybee has built a solution to forecast yield in broccoli and spinach using drone imagery and AI. Their proprietary computer vision and AI systems provide insights on broccoli stand count, head size distribution, and head size growth forecast on an intuitive dashboard with >95% accuracy. With Polybee's insights on yield, broccoli growers can reduce the number of harvests and improve recovery rate by timing them precisely. On the other hand, spinach growers are maximizing yield while still being in spec with precise measurement of leaf size.
Key Benefits
Spinach
- Higher Revenue: Accurate growth measurements and stress detection ensure crops are harvested at peak yield potential, maximizing output and revenue.
- Reduce Harvest Costs: Insights into plant readiness reduce the need for multiple harvest cycles, saving time and labor costs
- Early Stress Detection: Identify hotspots of plant stress due to chlorosis or other factors in multispectral imaging
- Logistical and Packaging Planning: Accurate data allows for better resource allocation in packing and transportation
- Stronger Relationships with Buyers Through Transparency: Providing detailed yield forecasts and quality indicators builds trust and fosters long-term partnership
- Negotiation Leverage in Pricing: Reliable data on yield and quality offers growers an advantage during price negotiations with buyers.
- Save Time in Scouting: Autonomous data collection minimizes manual labor, freeing up growers and staff for higher-value tasks.
Broccoli
- Increase Recovery Rates: Forecasting head size ensures growers focus on market-ready heads, reducing waste and improving usable yield.
- Reduce harvest costs: Precise yield estimation ensures efficient harvesting, minimizing unproductive harvest passes.
- Negotiation Leverage in Pricing: Reliable data on yield and quality offers growers an advantage during price negotiations with buyers.
Early Stress Detection: Identify plant stress due to chlorosis or other factors early, enabling corrective actions to safeguard yield and quality- Logistical and Packaging Planning: Accurate data allows for better resource allocation in packing and transportation.
- Stronger Relationships with Buyers Through Transparency: Providing detailed yield forecasts and quality indicators builds trust and fosters long-term partnership
- Save Time in Scouting: Autonomous data collection minimizes manual labor, freeing up growers and staff for higher-value tasks.
- Reducing Waste: Optimize resource use through efficient crop management and harvesting.
The benefits of Polybee's solutions go beyond the growers and extend across the entire value chain, enabling better alignment between supply and demand, reducing food waste, and fostering a more sustainable agricultural ecosystem.
Applications
We are aiming to collaborate with spinach and broccoli growers and vertically integrated produce companies in ANZ.