About the UK Agri-Tech Centre

Helping agri-tech businesses go further, faster

The UK Agri-Tech Centre helps agri-tech businesses prove technology, build confidence and scale adoption.

We combine specialist expertise, facilities and industry connections to help businesses overcome technical and commercial challenges.

From testing and validation through to business growth and market adoption, we help innovators turn promising ideas into practical solutions for agriculture.

What we do

We help businesses:

Prove it

From testing and validation through to business growth and market adoption, we help innovators turn promising ideas into practical solutions for agriculture.

Build it

Access expertise, programmes and support that help strengthen technologies and businesses.

Scale it

Connect with farmers, growers, industry partners and new opportunities to accelerate adoption.

Why businesses work with us

Agri-tech businesses need more than great technology to succeed.

They need access to expertise, facilities, farmers, growers, partners and customers. They need evidence that builds confidence. They need connections that help open doors.

That’s where we come in.

Through our national network, we help businesses access the people, places and opportunities that can move innovation forward.

Our impact

We bring together:

specialists

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across agriculture, aquaculture and business growth

facilities

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across the UK and partner network

commercial farms

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for testing, trialling and demonstration

A network of

farmers, growers, producers, researchers, investors and industry partners

Together, we’re helping businesses develop technologies that support a more productive, sustainable and resilient food system.

Our purpose

Agriculture faces significant challenges, from productivity and profitability to labour availability, sustainability and climate resilience.

Our purpose is to help agri-tech businesses go further, faster to solve those challenges and deliver solutions that create lasting impact for farmers, growers, businesses and the wider food system.

Ready to move your innovation forward?

Whether you’re looking to prove a technology, build your business or scale adoption, we’re here to help.