Businesses can apply for funding for projects to improve productivity, sustainability, resilience and the move of agriculture sector towards net zero.
This funding has been allocated to the Research Starter funding opportunities series within the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs’ (Defra) Farming Innovation Programme. This is delivered by Innovate UK’s transforming food production challenge.
Research Starter projects are small research and development (R&D) projects that are designed to be an entry point to the innovation process. This is for farmers, growers or foresters who have bold, ambitious, early-stage ideas for solving major problems that impact their businesses.
This third round of the Research Starter funding opportunities follows the excellent response to the previous rounds where farmers and growers identified potential solutions to the real problems they experience.
