Sustainable agriculture and food production with Norwegian technology

Page date: Published 9 Mar 2023; updated 21 Sep 2026. 4 min read.

The article surveys Norwegian technology intended to improve food production, agricultural resource use and traceability. It reports that land-based food production had nearly doubled since 1960 while labour input was 35% lower than in 2000, and says digitalization and automation—including dairy milking robots—contributed. These figures are from the article and are not current measurements.

Farm technology examples include Soil Steam International’s machines for steam-based control of weeds, fungi, seeds and nematodes; 7Sense irrigation sensors; Nofence virtual fencing; Findmy GPS collars; Saga Robotics’ Thorvald field robot; and Kilter’s automated weeding system. The article says Kilter’s robot can reduce herbicide use by 95%; this is a company/product claim presented by the publisher.

For aquaculture and marine resources, the page discusses collaboration between suppliers, researchers and government, and reuse of seafood by-products. It names Marealis’ use of discarded prawn shells for a bioactive ingredient and Arctic Bioscience’s omega-3 product using oil from herring roe. For food waste and traceability, it describes blockchain as a potential tool to document supply-chain stages; KeepIt Technologies’ temperature/shelf-life packaging indicator; and TotalCtrl and Foodlist apps for managing food waste.

The article presents Food Nation Norway as a government framework for safe, healthy food and sustainable production, with a 2030 vision covering sustainable food production and use, agriculture, food experiences and waste reduction. Its opening hunger and malnutrition figures refer to 2017 and are historical. Related link: Agritech and food production.