This blog is now closed
This blog is now closed
The Agri-Tech strategy is transforming into different policies, so we will no longer be updating this blog.
Centres for Agricultural Innovation: launching in 2016
In case you missed the Autumn Statement announcement last November, the Chancellor announced that Government is investing £68 million in three new Centres for Agricultural Innovation. As well as creating capacity in the UK to translate agricultural innovation into commercial …
98 and counting
I have now updated our Agri-tech Catalyst map to include details and locations for all of the Catalyst projects funded so far, including the most recent Round 4 projects. You can click here to view the map – the projects …
Helping commercialise your agricultural innovation
It is well known that the UK has an amazing research and innovation history. Right now in our universities and companies discoveries are being made that could have a major impact on society and the economy. However, it’s not an …
All Grown Up – pioneering commercial aquaponics
I recently headed out to the end of the DLR line, past the towers of Canary Wharf to the low rise distribution units of Becton to visit Unit 84 - home of GrowUp Urban Farms, London’s first commercial aquaponics urban …
Agri-tech Catalyst Project: Sustainable Scottish Seaweed
Seaweed is often dismissed as the slippery nuisance in the sea that snakes around our ankles. But for centuries it has been used as food, or even daresay a delicacy, from Dulse in a Scottish broth to Nori used in …
Changing the Game
Three months after my first visit to the Milan Expo for the Agri-tech GREAT Week, at the start of October I returned to Milan for another UKTI-led Agri-tech Expo event. This time the focus was on exploiting innovation across sectors: …
Agriculture that is out of this World
The way that we produce our food will change over the next few decades. Recently I had an inspiring visit to Alex Fisher and his company Saturn Bioponics, based in Birmingham, who design and build vertical hydroponic systems. The technology …
Agri-tech at the forefront of Precision Agriculture Revolution
The agriculture sector is undergoing major changes in the way it produces our food in the UK, and across the world. An overused, but important, forecast is that by 2050 60 per cent more food will need to be produced …
Agri-tech Strategy goes digital
Eighteen months ago the agri-tech team entered the world of digital engagement with the publication of its first newsletter. From this humble starting point digital engagement has expanded with several other digital communication streams (including a GOV.UK blog, a twitter …
The John Innes Centre and the improvement of crops
On a boiling day in July, a group of people were staring at a field of wheat in the Norfolk countryside trying to detect subtle differences in height, health and colour. Why, you may ask? Well, a group of us …
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