Agrifac Machinery B.V.
We need land to grow food, healthy soils to nourish crops and livestock, clean water on farms and farmers to make it all happen. Every farmer and contractor has its own daily challenge to achieve the highest possible return at the lowest cost. On a more global level, we know there is sufficient capacity to produce enough food to feed everyone adequately, despite the fact that the world population is predicted to increase to 9 billion by 2050. Instead of cultivating more and more land, we should be able to increase food productivity on existing farmland while at the same time lowering our footprint. That’s exactly the business that Agrifac is in! We want to contribute to the higher food need in a sustainable, brilliant simple way.
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- Business Type:
- Manufacturer
- Industry Type:
- Crop Cultivation
- Market Focus:
- Globally (various continents)
- Year Founded:
- 1939
Vision
We need land to grow food, healthy soils to nourish crops and livestock, clean water on farms and farmers to make it all happen. Every farmer and contractor has its own daily challenge to achieve the highest possible return at the lowest cost. On a more global level, we know there is sufficient capacity to produce enough food to feed everyone adequately, despite the fact that the world population is predicted to increase to 9 billion by 2050. Instead of cultivating more and more land, we should be able to increase food productivity on existing farmland while at the same time lowering our footprint.
That’s exactly the business that Agrifac is in! We want to contribute to the higher food need in a sustainable, brilliant simple way.
Mission
We can increase yield on less productive farm land where we see huge yield gaps between current production levels and those possible with improved production practices, mechanization and precision farming. Combined with for instance our innovative sprayers being able to achieve more yield with less crop protection, to provide each plant what it needs, our business contributes to a brilliant simple solution in helping farmers to feed the world in a sustainable manner.
Agrifac develops machines that provide every plant exactly what it needs. As the first manufacturer, Agrifac is now able to nurture exactly that plant that needs treatment, based on plot maps. We call this “Every drop hits the right spot.” We are heading towards 50% more revenue with 50% less crop protection. This development means that there will be a change in agriculture. The future farmer goes back to personal inspection of each plant. All kinds of data e.g. satellites and sensors make this possible. For those farmers combining their own knowledge and experience with the available data, the possibilities are endless. With this new technology, available data and common sense, together we can make the world a little more beautiful. The future of agriculture has begun, with NEED Farming, powered by Agrifac!
Sustainable Farming
Sustainable agriculture; farming in sustainable ways!
Agriculture plays a key role in our food chain. It faces political, environmental, logistical and economical challenges today, tomorrow and in the future. At the moment, according to the UN, over 600 million people worldwide are underfed. Our world faces a rapid growing world population, doubling the demand for food in the coming 20 years. Making Agriculture more and more Sustainable is key in all challenges that we are facing. No short term solutions. This is a challenge that Agrifac was, is and continues to be involved in.
Sustainability
What is fascinating when it comes to Sustainability is that we often tend to rely on the institutional level to tackle the problem. However often we forget the contributions and impact we already make. Agrifac has an 80 year long history of developing innovative tools and sustainable solutions. We invested in our factory in the Netherlands in 2018 making it the most sustainable in Europe (Breeam), developed machines using Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning and Software as a service which reduce the footprint in agriculture enormously whilst enabling increased output. We will continue to drive these innovations towards the future.
Sufficient and safe food
And looking at it a bit deeper, Agrifac produces agricultural sprayers. It could be argued that chemical spraying is not aiding in sustainability. It is indeed in an enormous stretch. To provide the world with sufficient food requires protection measures. If we do not protect our crops the amount of hungry people will double in the world. We do not know if in the end sprayers become obsolete; the future will tell.
UN Sustainable Development Goals
What we do know is that solutions are here which can already realise a reduction of chemicals and water up to 95%. However, there is still a lot of work to be done. The realisation of achieving the UN SDG goals by 2030 is for some business not an easy call. At Agrifac we are searching for answers to the questions on what to do on a day to day level.
In 2000 a large group of UN members (189) adopted the UN Millennium Development Goals. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) such as, fight poverty and hunger, water availability, and topics such as energy and climate change are high on the agenda. At Agrifac we endorse these SDG’s strongly! With ours 4e’s for Growers concept, development of innovative tools and a factory that is the most sustainable in Europe we focus especially at these Goals: