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UKRI invests £24 million in cutting-edge technology to transform UK agriculture | |
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发布年 | 2020 |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | 英国 |
领域 | 气候变化 |
正文(英文) | 17/07/2020
UKRI is investing in nine major new innovative agri-tech projects to bring the latest technology to UK agriculture. These cutting-edge projects will help UK farmers and growers to reduce carbon emissions, improve productivity and profitability, and showcase UK food production as leading the way in science and sustainability. The exciting new projects include next generation autonomous growing systems, new vertical farming techniques, robotics assisting our farmers in fruit picking and a project that converts CO2 from one of Britain’s biggest power stations into food for chickens or fish. Science Minister Amanda Solloway said: "To protect our environment and meet our world-leading target of Net Zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, we must harness the very best of UK innovation across all sectors, supporting the most creative and pioneering ideas. "From robotics assisting our farmers in fruit picking, to technology that converts CO2-to clean animal feed, the incredible and cutting-edge projects we are backing today represent the future of farming. Working with the best of British science, we are accelerating the transition to net zero food production, boosting jobs and productivity and driving forward the UK’s economic recovery." Funding for the nine projects comes through two competitions - the Future Food Production Systems competition and the Science and Technology into Practice Demonstration competition. Together these competitions have generated new collaborations spanning research, manufacturing, technology and farming to boost the productivity and economic growth of the sector. The funding forms part of UKRI’s Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund Transforming Food Production (TFP) challenge which aims to set food production systems on the trajectory to net zero emissions by 2040 and producing food in ways that are more efficient, resilient and sustainable. Farming Minister Victoria Prentis said: "It’s great to see investment in these outstanding ideas which will help us tackle the farming industry's greatest challenges, from achieving net zero emissions to investing in sustainable alternative protein for animal feed. Farming has never before been at the centre of such exciting and forward looking innovations." Projects receiving funding include:
Melanie Welham, Executive Director, BBSRC, part of UKRI, said: "The projects we have announced funding for today, show that the food production sector is a beacon of innovation. These brilliant ideas have the potential to make food production more resilient, efficient and less resource intensive. UKRI's funding programme for this sector is ongoing. In this funding round, we’ve awarded funding to nine innovative companies. In the future, we encourage businesses to come forward with fresh ideas to help UK agriculture." All of this investment in new resource efficient, low-emission production systems is part of the government's commitment to boost R&D spending to 2.4% of GDP by 2027. Notes to Editors UKRI’s £90 million Transforming Food Production programme as part the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund aims to help the agricultural sector grow economically with less environmental impact. The programme will set food production systems towards net zero emissions by 2040 by producing food in ways that are more efficient, resilient and sustainable. It will accelerate the development and adoption of integrated precision approaches to improve productivity in agricultural systems. The investment will be made over four years. The programme will focus on the development, demonstration and adoption of data-driven systems and technologies to achieve a better approach to agricultural production and reduce emissions. The remit includes both crop and farmed animal production, as well, as new production systems. The long-term success of the challenge is dependent on a diverse range of farm businesses adopting new technologies and approaches. Please sign up to our weekly newsletter to keep up to date: Share: |
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