Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc., one of the world’s leading vertically integrated producers, distributors and marketers of fresh and fresh-cut fruits and vegetables, is participation at this year’s World Biodiversity Summit, occurring alongside the United Nations Climate Change Conference and the Convention on Biological Diversity.

Babylon Micro-Farms, an indoor micro-farm company, has partnered with Aramark as well as a selection of the universities. Aramark will be installing one or two Babylon micro farms at each university campus, serving over 90,000 students in total.

Jac. Vandenberg Inc., a fresh produce importer and marketer, is gearing up for the second year of its Sunrays grape brand. After a successful debut, Sunrays grapes is announcing several new developments to its 2021-22 program which officially starts next month.

iUNU, a leading AI agtech company, announced its acquisition of Artemis, a leading enterprise Cultivation Management Platform.

Though controlled environment agriculture reportedly only accounts for 1 percent of total fresh produce production, the high-tech ag sector has attracted a lot of investment and its fair share of controversy, especially in the organic produce arena.

Copefrut, a Chilean company with more than 65 years in the market for the production and export of traditional and organic fresh fruit, has developed a Material Recyclability Index, a measure that seeks to understand the capacity of packaging to be integrated into recycling flows.