R&D: 2026 Nuffield Scholar Yumeng Chen

About this episode

Yumeng Chen discusses her Nuffield Scholar project on using virtual modelling to enhance vegetable production systems.

Yumeng Chen is one of the 2026 Nuffield Scholars who has been sponsored by Hort Innovation. Her project will explore how virtual modelling can optimise production systems and decision-making in vegetable growing. As she describes it the project will look at ways of using a virtual model of part of a farm, or part of an operation’s supply chain, combined with historical sales and production data, to forecast what will be needed in the year ahead. Yumeng is a Senior Account Manager with Fragapa...

People in this episode

Guest: Yumeng Chen

Topics covered

• virtual modelling
• production systems
• decision-making
• vegetable growing
• forecasting

Keywords

• Nuffield Scholar
• virtual modelling
• vegetable production
• Hort Innovation
• supply chain

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Hort Innovation, Fragapa

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