Background
With over 30 years experience in creating foodie-favourites, our product offerings have something for everyone's taste buds.
Challenge
Key Success Criteria
- Ability to score multiple yield and P&D related traits in situ during field trials or on farms.
- Technology should already have been demonstrated in cocoa or another crop.
- Must be able to process raw data and provided phenotypic measurements outputting data in a simple spreadsheet format.
- Must have sufficient resolution to record data from a single tree.
- Easy to operate by field technicians.
- Capable of working in outdoor environments with obstacles and uneven ground.
- The ability to record environmental co-variates would also be beneficial.
Possible Approaches
- UAVs or robots fitted using imaging equipment (such as LIDAR, fluorescence cameras, hyperspectral imaging).
What We Aren't Interested In
- Systems which can only operate in a protected environment. Systems requiring major infrastructure (e.g. tracks or gantries) for installation/operation. Systems proving only hardware or only software.
What's in it for you?
A successful collaboration could mean, for individuals, becoming part of the wider Foodies group, while for organisations, forming a potential partnership with one of the world’s most iconic brands to co-develop and co-launch the idea to market.
These are global challenges and Foodies are willing to collaborate with both individuals/freelancers and other industry participants/universities etc. and solutions can be at any stage of development.
If you have or are developing solutions, or if you have expertise in the above, please click "Apply" to submit your solution/expertise to the Network.
Pitching sessions will be held with applicants of interest.