Gamaya – an EPFL spin-off – announces that multi-year collaboration with the largest AgTech corporation Syngenta AG resulted in the launch of the world’s first commercial digital diagnostics solution for nematode pest by Syngenta AG. The unique and first-of-its-kind technology developed by Gamaya SA in collaboration with Syngenta AG will become the part of the digital technology platform, CROPWISETM.
The collaboration that started as an innovation challenge very quickly was transformed into a more scalable project and finally resulted in the integration of this advanced digital solution within Syngenta’s own digital technology platform.
The tool has been rigorously tested through extensive research and trials on 100’000 hectares of soybean fields. The test proved a high level of reliability and precision. Based on the agreement Syngenta will own this technology exclusively and will bring it to Soybean growers around the world starting from Brazil.
Gamaya has leveraged its remote sensing, data science, and agronomic modelling to build the solution and relied on Syngenta’s agronomic and crop knowledge. The resulting technology relies on a unique Data Science based model that analyses a series of satellite imagery to detect nematode specific damages.