UK Agri-Tech
Centre
Connecting you to expertise, networks, funding and facilities
The UK Agri-Tech Centre offers a complete life-cycle of support, driving agri-tech innovation and adoption through world-class facilities, expert knowledge and business support, saving you time and accelerating your progress.
We strengthen the connections between science, business and funders to accelerate research and development, tackling the agri-industry’s most critical challenges such as climate change, labour availability, disease mitigation and environmental sustainability.
As an independent company, we are trusted to provide leadership and guidance to progress transformational change for people and the planet while stimulating economic growth.
Latest News
Automated broccoli harvester could help farmers with labour shortages with SusProt
‘SusProt: Sustainable Plant Protein from Vegetable Crop Sidestreams’, aims to solve two of the world’s food related challenges; where sustainable alternatives to animal derived protein will come from and addressing farm labour and food security issues.
Hannah Senior: Agri-tech beyond borders
Hannah Senior is an agri-tech entrepreneur and a former non-executive director at CHAP. Her work with plant breeders and seed producers takes her across five continents. She is passionate about the role of entrepreneurship in making agriculture more sustainable.
Accelerating Agri-Tech: GelPonics
n 2020, AEH partnered with the UK Agri-Tech Centre on a three-year project – GelPonics – to develop, optimise and scale-up hydrogel-based substrates with highwater and nutrient retention capabilities that will meet growers’ specifications for reliability, quality and cost.
Livestock and Aquaculture Innovation: Shaping the next ten years Report
The livestock and aquaculture sectors’ research and innovation 11 priorities have been identified in a new report.
“Livestock and Aquaculture Innovation: shaping the next ten years”, a UK Agri-Tech Centre report, with input from over 150 stakeholders was published today (July 17), outlining 11 priorities for the industries’ sustainability and resilience, including:
- Animal health and welfare
- Food safety, quality and nutritional content
- Climate-smart solutions, ecosystem and biodiversity improvement
- Optimised diets, land performance and systems
- Productivity, data assets and technology
Download the report to learn more