reworking food production challenge: Funding purposes Open

purposes have opened for the newest circular of funding from the reworking food creation challenge for the development of future food construction systems.

The transforming food production problem is run by way of UK research and Innovation (UKRI) as part of the govt's commitment to raise R&D spending to 2.four% of GDP through 2027 and goals to assist the agricultural sector grow economically with much less environmental have an impact on.

Dr Helen Ferrier, the NFU's Chief Science Adviser, is a member of the transforming meals creation advisory group:

"This funding circular should draw out the most suitable, brightest and most ambitious ideas from the science and know-how group, not best in agriculture but also from different sectors too. It'll be standard to be mindful the future wants and competencies of the British meals and farming industry and the market it may possibly give in the a long time to come. I'm in reality completely happy that this competitors directly focuses on the challenges in offering our industry's internet zero imaginative and prescient. To play our role in addressing local weather exchange, I strongly trust there ought to be collective effort from across executive, business, science and society. This type of competition adds an important incentive to collaborate on one of the most critical issues of our time.

The coming near near Science and technology into apply competitors should be of particular pastime to farmers and others in the trade, as an opportunity to get funding for the regularly tricky step of translating skills and innovative solutions into business application on the ground. devoid of this step, it's unimaginable to achieve a true return on the funding that goes into research."

The £90 million fund changed into introduced by means of Greg Clarke, then BEIS Secretary of State right through the keynote speech of the NFU 2018 conference, to accelerate the building and adoption of recent resource effective, low emission creation methods so that you can concurrently meet the wants of a turning out to be inhabitants whilst helping the agricultural industries goal to achieve net zero emissions through 2040.

Katrina Hayter, problem Director, reworking food creation at UKRI:

"the united kingdom must turn into extra effective and environmentally sustainable in the food it produces. by means of harnessing the best of British vibrant ideas, we can increase productivity, open up new markets and help meet the nation's formidable net zero emissions target.

"This competitors is a great opportunity to show off remarkable improvements for you to aid transform agriculture throughout the united kingdom."

The remit includes the raise of sustainable productiveness of each crop and farmed animal production through improvements such because the integrated use of new digital technologies, sensors, synthetic intelligence, desktop learning and robotics.

previous inventive ideas which have gained funding include a assignment called Tuberscan, so we can scan potatoes underground ensuring they will also be harvested at the appropriate time.

The reworking meals production challenge would above all welcome huge-scale ambitious and built-in projects to reveal the paintings of the possible when it comes to future food creation systems.

The Science into expertise and apply competitors will open on the twenty eighth October 2019. It aims to make stronger ties between farmers, researchers and companies to increase methods to enhance productiveness and radically change meals production.

competitors assistance:

the competitors opened on the seventeenth September 2019, and the closing date for applications is at noon on the twenty second January 2020

an online briefing adventure could be held on the 3rd October 2019

a briefing event in Edinburgh on the eighth October 2019  

a briefing experience in Birmingham on the twenty third October 2019