New Zealand’s Economic Development Minister Phil Twyford and Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor an industry plan in order to grow the country’s agritech sector.

“We want to grow a cluster of large agritech firms that can take on the world, and build on New Zealand’s agricultural strength,” Phil Twyford said.

The agritech sector would benefit from the government investment including $11.4 million direct investment in implementing the Agritech Industry Transformation Plan, a share of $84 million of Sustainable Food & Fibre Futures funding brought forward to boost innovation and the support from the government’s agritech taskforce and existing government programmes.

Berlin based, open platform and marketplace for geospatial data and analytics company, UP42 entered in to a partnership with Vultus, a leader in precision farming technologies. With that, UP42 customers can now use Vultus Fertilization Zoning Maps algorithms to fine-tune crop management—with more agricultural technologies coming soon.

In addition to that, UP42’s agriculture customers can also pick and choose combinations of data and processing algorithms for their area of interest and retrieve results on a single scalable platform.