History
2020: Creation of Mineral agrotechnical-company
On October 14, 2020 the X Development company which owner is Alphabet, announced opening of the new agrotechnical-company. She received the name Mineral, its activity will be focused on improvement of agriculture using the innovative technologies.
The new company Mineral already provided robotized by the buggy which is intended for the analysis of crops. The buggy eats from solar batteries and independently crosses a field, investigating plants using a set of cameras and sensors. Due to use of artificial intelligence and processing of satellite, weather and soil data, the buggy can define patterns and problems with cultures.
 | Combining the data collected from a field, such as height of plants, size of leaves and fruits with environment factors, such as status of the soil and weather conditions, software tools Mineral can help selectors to understand and foretell how different plant varieties react to the environment, - Mineral explains. |  |
The company also noted that mapping and visualization of plants in the field will help producers to fix problems and to look after separate plants, but not, for example, to process the whole fields. Such approach will allow to reduce both costs, and negative level of impact on the environment.
Environmental friendliness is the central element of the concept Mineral, and stability is the key moment in the concept of the buggy. The idea of identification of problems with plants is in that farmers could manage better use of fertilizers, chemicals and waters and also to study growth techniques which can recover fertility of the soil and increase productivity. The buggy can also help with providing information on types of plants and their features that will help farmers to define sorts which will be steady and productive against the background of climate change.
| | To support increasing population of the planet, world agriculture will have to produce more food in the next 50 years, than for the previous 10 thousand years - when climate change reduces productivity of our cultures, - Mineral claims. | |
Mineral technologies are already used for studying of soy in Illinois and strawberries in California.[1]
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