10-Apr-2026 Last updated on 10-Apr-2026 at 14:44 GMT UK-based agri-tech firm AgriSound has launched a European field trial with international food group Importaco that seeks to make pollination a visible, actionable driver of orchard performance in commercial almond production. The pilot, running during the 2026 bloom season, will deploy AgriSound’s Polly™ pollination monitoring technology across two Importaco-operated almond orchards in Spain and Portugal, capturing continuous, real-time data on bee activity, pollination dynamics and downstream crop outcomes. More than 120 field sensors will be installed across the sites, making it one of the most detailed pollination monitoring programmes currently underway in European almond production. Pollination is widely recognised as fundamental to almond yields, but it is still typically managed via proxies such as hive counts or occasional field observations – approaches that often fail to capture how pollinators behave across an orchard ...