Seen and Heard: Photos from Precision Application Asia 2019
Bringing together some of the smartest minds of the agriculture world in Southeast Asia, Meister Media Worldwide’s first-ever Precision Application Asia event in Bangkok, Thailand, Nov. 5-6, 2019, served as a powerful platform for value chain creation and exchange of ideas around the tools of agriculture’s third revolution – ag tech – especially for the millions of smallholders across Southeast Asia.
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Panel: Disruption’s Role in Value Chain Creation
Rob Hulme, Cofounder and Asia Director, Beanstalk AgTech; Dr. Saowaluck Pornkulwat, Thai Crop Protection Association and FMC AG Thailand; Dr. Ravi Khetarpal, Executive Secretary, APAARI; Paul Voutier, Director of Knowledge and Innovation, Grow Asia
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David Frabotta, Editorial Market Development Director, Meister Media Worldwide
"We’ve hit an inflection point where agriculture technology will dramatically increase yields in developing agriculture economies like many in Asia, and it’s because we’re experiencing a third revolution in modern agriculture that combines the benefits of the previous two."
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Audience at Precision Application Asia 2019
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Dr. Saowaluck Pornkulwat, Thai Crop Protection Association and FMC AG Thailand
"The Thai government's ambitious initiative 'Thailand 4.0’ is a roadmap for future growth in the country. It includes provisions designed to drive Thailand's agricultural productivity through greater efficiency and more effective use of technology."
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Audience at Precision Application Asia 2019
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Lawrence Yu, President of Asia Pacific, AMVAC
Yu shared how closed systems coupled with precision application brings about a paradigm change to traditional crop protection.
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Summer Deng, Sales Director, DJI Agriculture
“For a 60-hectare field, it used to take 10 people working two to three days to spray, but now we have a drone, the Agras T16 from DJI, that can accomplish the task in under four hours.”
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Networking at the Bangkok Marriott Surawongse
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Gaurav Sharma, Global Agrichemicals Research Lead, Accenture
Sharma discussed disruptions in the crop protection industry, and how digital farming has emerged as the key area for agribusiness collaborations.
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Markus Scherer, Consulting Director, Ipsos Business Consulting
“This is the year that the data services and analytics side is overtaking the hardware side. We’ve seen, in just a short period of time, hardware coming onto the scene in 2017 and exploding, with DJI leading the push. Today, the data analytics side is really where the money is.”
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Cocktail Reception at the Bangkok Marriott Surawongse
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Networking at the Bangkok Marriott Surawongse
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Enjoying the Cocktail Reception
Jackie Pucci, Senior Writer, Meister Media Worldwide; Shrikant Aherkar, Senior Ag Scientist, Stepan Asia Pte Ltd; Shilpa Patel, Sulphur Mills Ltd.
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Field Day at the S.A.T.I. Flight Training Center
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Talking Formulations at Field Day
Xiaoyu Li, Business Manager, SPM Biosciences (Beijing) Co., Ltd. chats with Dr. Peter Baur, Head of Competence Center Crop Solutions, Clariant.
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Marco Cristino of Barraca Erro and Prokchon Promkungwahn, S.A.T.I. Platform Co, Ltd
In-field agtech demos from leading local distributor and tech manufacturer S.A.T.I.
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Ready to demonstrate a drone's spray capabilities
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Shilpa Patel, Sulphur Mills Ltd.
More hands-on pilot training.
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Wrapping up a successful 2019 Precision Application Asia event
Thank you to all of our attendees!
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Panel: Disruption’s Role in Value Chain Creation
David Frabotta, Editorial Market Development Director, Meister Media Worldwide
Audience at Precision Application Asia 2019
Dr. Saowaluck Pornkulwat, Thai Crop Protection Association and FMC AG Thailand
Audience at Precision Application Asia 2019
Lawrence Yu, President of Asia Pacific, AMVAC
Summer Deng, Sales Director, DJI Agriculture
Networking at the Bangkok Marriott Surawongse
Gaurav Sharma, Global Agrichemicals Research Lead, Accenture
Markus Scherer, Consulting Director, Ipsos Business Consulting
Cocktail Reception at the Bangkok Marriott Surawongse
Networking at the Bangkok Marriott Surawongse
Enjoying the Cocktail Reception
Field Day at the S.A.T.I. Flight Training Center
Talking Formulations at Field Day
Marco Cristino of Barraca Erro and Prokchon Promkungwahn, S.A.T.I. Platform Co, Ltd
Ready to demonstrate a drone's spray capabilities
Shilpa Patel, Sulphur Mills Ltd.
Wrapping up a successful 2019 Precision Application Asia event
Check out the slideshow — and stay tuned for more photos and event coverage to come.
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Jackie Pucci is Senior Writer for PrecisionAg, CropLife, and AgriBusiness Global specializing in the ag technology and crop inputs sectors.
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