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Dropcopter co-founder Matt Koball, a former olive grower, with the drone.
Photo: Dropcopter
Dropcopter co-founder Adam Fine receives a $500,000 award at the Grow-NY competition.
Photo: Grow-NY
PRECISION POLLINATION New York invests in
By Stephen Kloosteman
Associate Editor
Dropcopter, a startup company
pitching precision pollination of fruits
and vegetables by drone, recently earned
a half a million dollars from New York
state, which is investing in agriculture.
Grow-NY, an agricultural business
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pitch competition sponsored by the state,
played out in November. Dropcopter
was in the top three funded companies
- second only to a restaurant promotion
company called RealEats - and the only
one in the top three that focused on
farm operations.
" The goal is to increase that fruit set as
much as possible, especially during cold
periods, when it's hard to pollinate, " said
co-founder Adam Fine. " Bees don't fly in
the cold, and they don't fly at nighttime,
drone pollination startup
so that's difficult, when you have a bloom
period, to set a good crop. "
Dropcopter uses six-rotor drone to
drop precise amounts of pollen in fields
or orchards. According to the founders,
the technology aims at better fruit
set, pollination that's not as reliant on
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