Nutrient management challenges
Nutrient management is a global issue. If we are to understand how the delivery and uptake of nutrients are impacting the environment then we need new technologies to be able to make quantitative decisions.
The lack of technology isn’t the only challenge. We asked Finistere Ventures Mike Pereira, who’s a highly experienced agronomist with over 39 years experience advising and working with start-ups and corporate leaders including Syngenta, what he saw as the global challenges in nutrient management. He named five things:
Time
There’s no silver bullet
It’s more than just nutrients
Climate change
Farmer Adoption
Hear Mike explain why these are the five biggest challenges in his video below.
About Mike Pereira
Mike Pereira is an agronomist with Finistere Ventures. Mike is a highly accomplished agriculturalist with extensive experience over a 39 year career in agronomy, seeds, and biofuels. Mike has held executive leadership positions with Syngenta’s and Limagrain’s global seed production organisations and has a proven track record in establishing new production systems, technologies and areas. In biofuels, he established the first hybrid seed system for Miscanthus, an ethanol feedstock for Mendel Bioenergy Seeds, and also established and directed hybrid seed production and plantation research of Jatropha, a diesel and jet fuel feedstock for SGB, Inc. Throughout his career, Mike has focused on the importance of targeted agronomy for success in agriculture. Currently, Mike also is associated with the Seed Biotechnology Center of UC Davis as an instructor for Seed Business 101 and as the lead instructor for the short course Seed Production.