AGCO.(NYSE: AGCO), a global leader in the design, manufacture and distribution of agricultural machinery and solutions, today held its first ever AGCO iVenture Summit in Berlin, Germany. The Summit is a joint initiative of AGCO, AGCO Finance, AGCO’s Fuse Technologies, and Anterra Capital, a venture capital investor focusing on companies in the food and agricultural sectors.

“Startups are disrupting traditional agriculture and address many of the world’s most significant challenges, including food security, farmer livelihood and resource efficiency,” said Martin Richenhagen, AGCO Chairman, President and CEO. “Today, we are bringing Silicon Valley to Berlin. Agri-tech startups will pitch ideas that make a real difference and stand for technological progress and innovation in agriculture.”

AGCO IVENTURE首脑会议目标通过创建有可能将全球农业推进的颠覆性解决方案积极塑造农业未来的创新者和Visionaries。活动的目的是加强农业社会的创新文化。AGCO Iventure峰会致力于帮助创新者获得行业思想领导，合作伙伴和资助的人，最终帮助他们为市场带来新技术。目标是将合适的人民共同培养，并为光明的未来建立成功的伙伴关系，并为全球粮食安全做出贡献。

Adam Anders，管理合伙人和Anterra Capital的联合创始人，“企业家和风险资本家越来越多地认识到农业部门的长期机会，越来越多地投资农业科技创业。在亚特拉首都，我们投资于技术驱动公司的食品供应链，并与资本，专业知识和一个超出传统农业社区和传统风险资本群落的网络支持。对于美国，AGCO Iventure首脑会议是一个独特的平台，将食物和农业部门商业领袖与最佳农业科技初创公司和对该部门感兴趣的最强风险投资者带来。“

开创性的农业科技企业家专注于沿着农业价值链的创新思想，从大数据，云软件和机器人到新作物开发，灌溉解决方案，智能施肥，城市农业等等。他们的破坏性技术和新型解决方案有可能使现代农业更加富有成效，高效和可持续。今天的活动为革命性的Agri-Tech创业公司提供了一个平台来展示他们的商业模式。

AGCO Iventure首脑会议的参与者讨论了农业技术初创公司和风险投资者能够共同努力开发新技术，这些技术提高农业生产力，创造更好，更可持续的粮食安全。

Guest speakers included Prof. Klaus Josef Lutz (CEO of BayWa AG), Bernard Krone (Managing Director and Owner, Bernard Krone Holding SE & Co. KG), Adrian Percy (Head of Research & Development, Crop Science – a division of Bayer), David Batcheller (Chairman of Appareo Systems, LLC), Berry Marttin (Member of the Managing Board, Rabobank), Michael Horsch (Founder, HORSCH Maschinen GmbH), and Prof. Dr. Thomas Herlitzius (Chair of Professorship for Agricultural Systems Technology, TU Dresden).

“The AGCO iVenture Summit provided a great platform for agri-tech startups like Agriconomie, Ecrorobotics, Farmobile, German Autolabs, TellusLabs, UseMyTec, and Wefarm and allowed them to connect with experts and build new relationships to grow their business ventures,” Richenhagen concluded. “At AGCO, we are always on the lookout for new ideas and the iVenture Summit introduced us to some amazing new technologies that are certainly interesting for us.”

For more information, please visithttp://www.agco-iventure-summit.com/home.html.

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AGCO（纽约证券交易所股票代码：AGCO）是农业解决方案设计，制造和分销的全球领导者，并通过其全系列设备和相关服务支持更加富有成效的农业。AGCO产品遍历五个核心品牌，Challenger®，Fendt®，GSI®，MasseyFerg亚博在线手机端uson®和valtra®，支持Fuse®Precision技术和农场优化服务，并通过3,000多名独立经销商和分销商全球分发在150多个国家。AGCO成立于1990年，总部位于美国GA德卢斯。2016年，AGCO销售额约为74亿美元。有关更多信息，请访问//www.namstec.com.。For company news, information and events, please follow us on Twitter: @AGCOCorp. For financial news on Twitter, please follow the hashtag #AGCOIR.