# Agritech

> The agritech industry commercializes advances in plant genetics, soil microbiology, and precision agriculture, much of which originates in land-grant university research programs. Companies recruit heavily from plant-science and agronomy PhD pipelines and rely on sponsored research and field-trial collaborations to validate new traits and biologicals. The closest academic ties run through agricultural extension labs and crop-genomics centers.

*Source: [https://selltoscientists.com/industries/agritech/](https://selltoscientists.com/industries/agritech/)*

**Market size:** $24B
**Target researcher profile:** Plant scientists, agronomists, soil microbiologists, and crop geneticists working on yield, gene editing, nitrogen fixation, and sustainable inputs

## Use cases

- Crop trait licensing from university programs
- Field trial collaboration with ag-extension labs
- Recruiting plant-genomics PhDs
- Microbiome platform co-development
- Sponsored research at land-grant universities
- Gene-editing IP partnerships

## Representative companies

- Corteva Agriscience
- Bayer Crop Science
- Syngenta
- Inari Agriculture
- Pivot Bio
- Indigo Agriculture
- Benson Hill
- Pairwise
- Greenlight Biosciences