Olivier Le Blainvaux, one of the founders, at Neofarm, an agro-ecological vegetable farm on a compact two-acre plot near Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche, France, on Sept. 28, 2021. Le Blainvaux believes it’s possible for boutique farmers to have better lifestyles. (Andrea Mantovani/The New York Times)
YVELINES, France — On a century-old farm that’s now a startup campus in this verdant region west of Paris, computer coders are learning to program crop-harvesting robots. Young urbanites planning vineyards or farms that will be guided by big data are honing their pitches to investors.
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