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Tai Sade

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“Yeah, I think that's part of our mission statement from an environmental perspective for sure. And that's not only us, but also for the farming industry. So I think that pollination is the tool to have better control, better performance, and also better environmental outputs on how you produce your food. People understand that we need to produce much more with much less. And not only as a buzzword, that's the reality that we'll need to face in order to feed the world and to make it the same as we have it today.”
2024-01-18 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Doing the bees’ work with Thai Sade of BloomX · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You definitely write, and I think you really touched the point of, you know, I talked about what I'm doing here, which is trying to face with global challenge and find a solution. So that the incentive Better produce from your own farms, it's better, it's better by mentally and financially for you, okay? And that's something that retailers, you know, having this conversation with their producers, and that's something that became more and more aware. And that's something that is also something that we can measure and add value for the good conservative world agriculture, but I think that this problem of pollination and where we are is something that goes really one to use and solve.”
2024-01-18 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Doing the bees’ work with Thai Sade of BloomX · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So that's a good question in the current climate and situation we are in Israel, but we must go on as a company and provide our services and operation to where we have commitment, the majority of our activity is not in Israel. in Latin America today. So a lot of our employees and project managers are there together with our distributors.”
2024-01-18 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Doing the bees’ work with Thai Sade of BloomX · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And from there, we also understand that blueberries is a very big opportunity which suffers from pollination limitations and is growing rapidly in Peru, Mexico. I will say generally orchards in the outdoor that we want to leverage our cross B Could be the subtropical like mangoes, glitches and macademia. Oh, nuts. So that's the focus”
2024-01-18 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Doing the bees’ work with Thai Sade of BloomX · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So the main activity we started with avocados, and that was more in Latin America where the market is, Colombia, Peru, Mexico. So we started engaging with companies there in our validation process.”
2024-01-18 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Doing the bees’ work with Thai Sade of BloomX · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So there is a very big gap that we can increase the yield responsibly without taking too much resources from the trees that will be like a negative effect in the following yields, okay, not demanding too much of the tree. That's kind of our philosophy, and that's very important. We are focusing on crops that have pollination challenges. It's not that every crop has pollination challenges. Citrus don't have pollination challenges because honeybees will use them. They love citrus.”
2024-01-18 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Doing the bees’ work with Thai Sade of BloomX · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Again, you're totally right, and maybe I can take it back again. In the natural process, trees don't need to have 200 fruits. We're trying to optimize that from a commercial perspective. But for the trees to... To reproduce himself, he don't need that amount. So yeah, there is this balance of what we're trying to take out of the tree, but also in our perspective, do it that responsibly. Avocados and other crops that we are dealing with, pollination is a limiting factor for yield.”
2024-01-18 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Doing the bees’ work with Thai Sade of BloomX · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“On the right and the best conditions we can have, and then to affect the size, to affect the fruit sets, and that's what we are doing.”
2024-01-18 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Doing the bees’ work with Thai Sade of BloomX · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The algorithm basically that what we do there is to understand how environmental conditions affect flowering behavior. And by that, basically, that's something that part of the secret cells of how we've built that, but in every crop is different flowering mechanism, different complexity, but the operational assets is the same. We are trying to understand what will be the right time in every day having those temperature, humidity, sun of light, what will be the right time to pollinate. Tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, and etc. So we can identify that, but it's a per day practice because, for example, avocados have one million flowers in a season of one month and a half.”
2024-01-18 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Doing the bees’ work with Thai Sade of BloomX · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, so it's in the spring, but I mean, not as a period, I'm talking really every day. We know what is the right day. Per day, we know the hours”
2024-01-18 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Doing the bees’ work with Thai Sade of BloomX · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Which is their house So while we do that is because honeybees don't like to pollinate the hassle of flowers. They don't like the So, if you don't have, it's not that they're not pollinating at all. It's not binaric, right? But Eventually statistically you will have less visits of honeybees you will have less fruits. So statistically we increase the distribution of pollen because we predict what is the right time when pollen is receptive to collect it.”
2024-01-18 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Doing the bees’ work with Thai Sade of BloomX · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Loves us, but we plan the pollinator variety to enhance the has productivity. That's why we put them new charter in the objects. So what we do is basically we collect from the pollinator variety, it could be Ettinger, Fierty, others smooth skin avocados, and we transfer the pollen that we collect in the plate, just rub it by friction on the flowers that we want to pollen on the has.”
2024-01-18 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Doing the bees’ work with Thai Sade of BloomX · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, what's happening there is that eventually we have two varieties that we use in the orchards to cross pollen it. So avocado is a great example. We have the pollinator variety. It could be Ettinger Fuelti.”
2024-01-18 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Doing the bees’ work with Thai Sade of BloomX · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, so you describe it correctly, that's the manual version that we have today. We're also developing a mechanical version, which is basically big mechanical ARMs that have big electrodes, big plates, flexible plates that That touches your tractor or pick”
2024-01-18 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Doing the bees’ work with Thai Sade of BloomX · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think that we are very agnostic in a sense of we want to show you the value of using our services and you eventually you the goal will evaluate what is best for you. Again, agriculture is not natural and if you want to have this essential process of pollination in the field like you irrigate if it's drip or arrow fertilize differently You need to have also a control on your pollination process.”
2024-01-18 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Doing the bees’ work with Thai Sade of BloomX · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, and I think that we'll need to strategize together how to use honeybees and us. Maybe they will reduce the amount of honeybees because it's becoming more and more expensive and using us as a supplementary tool for pollination.”
2024-01-18 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Doing the bees’ work with Thai Sade of BloomX · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Essentially, so what the technology does is you would say keep using the honeybees, but you will see that your yields will go up because. Where the bees can't actually perform efficiently, this technology that we have, we can actually produce better results.”
2024-01-18 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Doing the bees’ work with Thai Sade of BloomX · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“To having bees And also on that, honeybees. They have value, but if I will reduce them, that could also affect the yields of the crop. So essentially the goals need to understand what they have with honeybees, what they have with us, and what you have together.”
2024-01-18 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Doing the bees’ work with Thai Sade of BloomX · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I think that they could replace, but trying to replace natural process that goes have been working for years, which are having a lot of reliability.”
2024-01-18 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Doing the bees’ work with Thai Sade of BloomX · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, but I think that the comparison is not on Annibies. The comparison is more than that's what we emphasize eventually. It's on the results on the yield. It's not compared to the insect. In compared to Anabs, when we apply those machines, we see a range of between 10 to 40 percent of yield increase to cause gut of using our services.”
2024-01-18 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Doing the bees’ work with Thai Sade of BloomX · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I think that it's like everything there is this LOI and the cost effectiveness of everything we do, right? This specific vehicle will replicate every week the same plant. It can do up to 20 hectares a week in six days.”
2024-01-18 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Doing the bees’ work with Thai Sade of BloomX · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, so while it create basically, and that's something we don't see in the video, but it's the flower, when it gets a vibration for those mechanical arms, the pollen is basically released from the flower. It's like a polypollo.”
2024-01-18 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Doing the bees’ work with Thai Sade of BloomX · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, so what you describe is correct. We are mimicking the bumblebee vibration system by those electric vehicles which have two mechanical arms that basically vibrate the bottom of the plant, the blueberry flowers on the branches with the same frequency that we are trying to get the vibration of the bumblebee.”
2024-01-18 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Doing the bees’ work with Thai Sade of BloomX · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, and we actually see that it's walking, and that's a very interesting mechanism that we are replicating, that we apply today for several crops, but could be others, but we also have like the data on when to pollinate. We have an algorithm that allows to understand how environmental conditions affect the flowing behavior for every crop that we are working on that give us the right pollination window to pollinate and create a focus of the pollination season based on real-time environmental conditions that we have in the field.”
2024-01-18 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Doing the bees’ work with Thai Sade of BloomX · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Another mechanism that we are applying, for example, is basically electrostatic forces to collect the pollen out of the flowers and then apply them by friction. And what we are mimicking there is that, for example, sticky pollen like avocados, mangroves, In a coevolution between the plant and the insect basically means that when the honeybee flying became electrically charged and that electrical charge when they approached the flower gets the pollen to jump on the body. So we try to basically to mimic that process and to create electrostatic mechanism that collect the pollen out of the flowers and then apply it.”
2024-01-18 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Doing the bees’ work with Thai Sade of BloomX · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So actually all flowers that have different mechanisms to transfer pollen from one flower to the other, what to differentiate those mechanism is the forces that you need to apply on the flower in order to release the pollen or transfer it. So vibration, for example, the bumblebee vibration, which you mentioned, is one of them. It's one of them regarding to blueberries, tomatoes, peppers.”
2024-01-18 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Doing the bees’ work with Thai Sade of BloomX · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So it wasn't to replace B's, but to enhance the pollination activity. And I think that what's very interesting to understand, from what I've shared, you can understand that if honeybees are not the natural pollinators, I think that from our logic it would meant, okay, so we shouldn't look on the honeybee and how to improve it. We should look on the plant. We should focus on the plant, not on the insect in order to understand the mechanism and how we can enhance the activity on the plant.”
2024-01-18 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Doing the bees’ work with Thai Sade of BloomX · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“To eat, only one thing is not good for any living creature. The reason we use them is because it's easy for us to manage them and put them in boxes. And we can manage them because it's a very socialized organism that we can just commoditize. But the other natural point was the insect is actually... much more important to planet made up of crops but you cannot just spread many insects or different butterflies or whatever to pollinate a crop because they are not controlled like honeybees and that's why we created bluemix basically because what we find out is that not only that we're harming the honeybees while we're using them like that Are not pollinating effectively many type of crops”
2024-01-18 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Doing the bees’ work with Thai Sade of BloomX · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So you're right, we use those honeybees boxes pushing them into the orchards or whatever we want to pollinate and effectively they pollen. So here is the interesting part. The number of honeybee hives has increased from the 1960s to today by around 81%. But the number of land that needs pollination globally in the same time grew much more and that's what created this big gap that you know today and effectively how we manage and use honeybees to pollinate makes this process very problematic from the honeybee perspective which basically decreases the functionality and decreases the hive numbers and etc because of the commercial use which is very intense we talked about trucks transferring them from one place to another pesticide that affect them this orientation bad nutrition for example to pollinate only avocados”
2024-01-18 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Doing the bees’ work with Thai Sade of BloomX · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, so that's how it worked in my kibbutz and that's how it worked today to produce food we need pollination means the transaction of pollen. From a single flower to the other flower, which is usually transferred by insect, so around 80% of the commercial growing crops that we use today are pollinated by insects. The other 20% are pollinated by wind.”
2024-01-18 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Doing the bees’ work with Thai Sade of BloomX · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right, so I think that this mindset is coming from place that. They needed to innovate because they didn't have the right infrastructure to produce what they need. If it's water, if it's to fertilize land, if it's finding new ways to protect the crops. And I think that a lot of the innovations that we have came from kibbutz. So the irrigation pipes that were invented by Netofim, that's a kibbutz in Israel that basically that sit on the desert basically invented that because they needed to control the water and irrigate it.”
2024-01-18 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Doing the bees’ work with Thai Sade of BloomX · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, we were the owners and managing together with my mother and my sister. After fuse that, the business was established basically in, I would say, successful or self-sustain, a lot of the drivers for me to do what I'm doing today is this entrepreneurial mindset. And then back then, maybe seven years ago, I understood that I want to deal with a more impactful challenge or challenges that we are facing globally. challenges of agriculture and food.”
2024-01-18 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Doing the bees’ work with Thai Sade of BloomX · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Very young age, I was exposed for my mother, which is originally from France and was a big, big part of my culture and influenced me. So fast forward, I opened a restaurant with my mother and sister. As a family business that we had for almost nine years.”
2024-01-18 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Doing the bees’ work with Thai Sade of BloomX · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I think back then it was something that was my dream or intention to do. I'm also coming from Family from a French family who in our culture back home was very a lot about food and I think that it's a very Strong tool for us back home to share love, absolutely something that”
2024-01-18 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Doing the bees’ work with Thai Sade of BloomX · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, you're right. So I think it's a very unique way of how kibbutzes are managed, which means that the youth, the education was very involved in the farming activity. And it means that while you are studying, you're also involved in the community. So it could be farming, there could be other things that you can do. And I specifically was involved in farming one day per week, you know, as a mentor part of my life, of my routine as part of growing in a kibbutz.”
2024-01-18 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Doing the bees’ work with Thai Sade of BloomX · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I grew up in a kibbutz growing everything from orchards of persimon, citrus, avocados, bananas to big open fields of wheat, cotton, corn and big farming activity. I specifically was small in the orchards. That was where I... Involved since I was eleven years old and the standing and loving the space of agriculture of producing food and growing crops.”
2024-01-18 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Doing the bees’ work with Thai Sade of BloomX · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT