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At MuPu Innovations, we are working to improve drought resilience and to mitigate climate adaptation for primary producers.

A key focus for MuPu Innovations is the development and roll-out of techniques and technologies related to the reduction of Nitrogen emissions within high-intensity Animal Husbandry (e.g. cattle for meat and dairy,) and service providers within the sector (e.g. stockyard operators and abattoirs).

Our initiatives aim to contribute towards the reduction of both greenhouse and “polluting” atmospheric gas-emissions, whilst at the same time improving soil health via Nitrogen and Phosphorous resource recovery.

How

It helps

Making use of automation technologies to keep things simple

Circular Agriculture offers a sustainable path forward for the planet

Vitality - Life-essence and essential. Resource-recovery of Phosphorous which is a key ingredient for life.

There are two key drivers that are creating demand for the approach MuPu Innovations is taking.

The first is the global move towards managing Global Greenhouse Gases (GHG’s), not just in agriculture, but across many facets of society. This brings with it the emergence of “carbon accounting” and the associated need for all players in agricultural value-chains to be GHG-aware and reduce not just their own emissions, but also Scope 3 emissions (which occur outside of their immediate locus of control).

Primary producers will be increasingly asked to understand their GHG emissions and also work to reduce them, as part of achieving national emission-reduction goals by 2030 and 2050. Nitrogen emissions from livestock are a significant contributor to the GHG emissions of the nation as a whole (via nitrification of NH3 to NOx), and will need to be reduced if we as a nation are to reach our emissions-reduction targets.

The finite and ever-reducing sources of Phosphorus upon which all agriculture relies is also a key driver, as noted by . Naidu et. al. in their 2012 paper :

“Phosphorus is a major nutrient for all organisms on earth and has no known substitute. It is estimated that phosphate rock reserves will near exhaustion within 70 years at current rates of use. Uncontrolled exploitation of the mineral is likely to lead to a significant increase in the cost of P fertilizers making it out of reach for developing countries.”

Our Technical Director is Andrew Tokmakoff, who has 30+ years of professional experience in the Computer Systems Engineering domain, with capabilities ranging from Technical Design, Implementation and Operation through to Business Development, team-leading and fundamental research. He has extensive experience in the design and delivery of systems within projects and also as long-term products. Alongside his activities at BASEM3NT Studios, Andrew is also the Technical Lead at TERN Surveillance, located at the University of Adelaide, where he leads a team of developers that are producing next-generation ecological field data collection systems for the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW).

Our Operations Director and Managing Producer is Corinna McLaine, who has 25+ years of professional experience in Project Management and Operations in domains ranging from large-scale event, production and stage coordination to short-form content-creation and producing. With this wealth of experience, Corinna brings an abundance of operations and coordination know-how, highly-developed interpersonal skills, a savvy business head, and creative thinking to the table.