Scotland grants £200m to 150 agriculture projects
Added on 27 July 2022
The investment will be part of the 2022-2027 Environment, Natural Resources, and Agriculture Strategic Research Programme (SRP).
"In total, we are investing more than £200 million in the next five years, which will support over 150 projects," she explained in an interview with FarmingUK."They cover issues such as the resilience of livestock to climate change; how to reduce climate change emissions from farming; and the way in which anti-microbial resistance and pathogens spread into the food chain, and then into humans [ ] The support confirms our determination, in a tough financial climate, to ensure that Scotland continues to make an important contribution to research on agriculture and the environment."
This comes after UKRI awarded a combined £8 million in funding, as part of Defra's Farming Innovation Programme, to new farming concepts.
Among the winners, a consortium led by LettUs Grow Ltd in partnership with a commercial greenhouse and supported by Crop Health and Protection (CHAP), is collaborating on a project to explore a novel technology for use within controlled environment agriculture (CEA). The work is focused around LettUs Grow's unique ultrasonic aeroponic technology - a method of growing plants without soil, where roots are suspended in the air and irrigated using a nutrient-dense mist.
The project involves the design and prototype of a fully-functioning advanced Aeroponic Rolling Bench system, which is designed to be added to existing automated growing set-ups found in hectare-scale greenhouses and indoor farms.
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Source: iGrow News
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