AgTech Products and Services

The platform is set to deliver unmatched control to farmers, driving efficiency across operations

Fresno, CA - November, 2024 – Netafim USA, the precision agriculture business of Orbia Advance Corporation's S.A.B. de C.V. (BMV: ORBIA*), today announced the launch of GrowSphere™, an intuitive, all-in-one digital farming tool that seamlessly manages irrigation and fertigation. The operating system helps growers improve crop yield and quality while using less water, fertilizer, energy, and labor.

GrowSphere is one of the only platforms on the market today with a unified workspace easily accessible across desktop and mobile devices, giving farmers full control of their operations. It also gives users access to the highly researched agronomic support tool, "crop advisor," which offers irrigation and fertigation models validated by leading institutions. Its irrigation protocols on more than 30 crop models consider a wide range of factors, including soil type, weather, irrigation method and configuration, crop varieties, field stressors, growth stage, duration, and root depth, to remove the guesswork and implement precision into crops.

"GrowSphere is helping growers who face many pressures today, including decreased water resources and more unpredictable weather in many regions. Having a dependable tool that can provide a real-time view of shifting environmental conditions and trigger timely responses is shown to lower costs and ease workloads," said Mike Hemman, SVP and Head of Netafim North America. "With food production needing to increase 70% by 2050, this operating system is helping farmers get more value per acre and consistent, quality yields."

GrowSphere also leverages a new partnership with Phytech to bring the most advanced capabilities and deliver unprecedented technological support directly to farmers. Phytech, an advanced plant-monitoring solutions company, integrates a simplified alert system that pairs predictive algorithms, data analysis tools, crop health markers, and environmental patterns to produce real-time recommendations into GrowSphere's already impressive offering. This also includes hydraulic monitoring capabilities enabling real-time problem detection and predictive maintenance of irrigation systems to allow a swift response to any issue that might arise.

The platform seamlessly scales to support growing operations of any size with its simple, multilinguistic interface that can be managed by anyone at any tech skill level. To date, over 1,000 controllers have been installed, with over 900 unique users; more than 4,500 acres are being supported by the operating system. GrowSphere has provided significant value to growers who produce diverse crops in a wide range of environmental conditions. For more information, visit NetafimUSA.com.

About Netafim USA:
Netafim USA, Orbia's Precision Agriculture business, is the world's largest irrigation company and a global leader in precision agriculture solutions that address food, water and land scarcity for a sustainable future. Founded in 1965, Netafim pioneered the drip revolution, creating a paradigm shift toward precision irrigation. Today, by specializing in end-to-end solutions from the water source to the root zone, Netafim delivers irrigation and greenhouse projects as well as landscape and mining irrigation solutions supported by engineering, project management and financing services. Netafim is also leading the way in digital farming, irrigation and fertigation through integrating real- time monitoring, analysis and automated control into one state-of-the-art system. With 33 subsidiaries, 19 manufacturing plants, 2 recycling plants and 4,500 employees worldwide, Netafim delivers innovative, tailor-made irrigation and fertigation solutions to millions of farmers, allowing smallholders to large-scale agricultural producers and investors in over 100 countries to grow more with less™. To learn more visit: Netafim.com