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Smart farming

£2 million Agri-Tech Centre Our Agri-Tech Centre provides access to commercially-proven technology to help improve the profitability, welfare, and sustainability of livestock production. Be exposed to the latest in smart faming through on-farm demonstrations and research collaborations, ready for your future career. £2 million Tech Box Park We’re creating dedicated work spaces for local agri-business to test, research and develop new products, or enhance existing ones, with our newTech Box Park.

With a rapidly growing world population, set to hit 9.7 billion by 2050, there’s one huge challenge facing the agricultural industry. How do we feed an extra 2 billion Our students are the next generation of agricultural leaders. By investing in our 10- year Digital Innovation Farm project, we’re giving them access to smart technology to carry out research and build the critical skills to contribute to innovative solutions that address this global food challenge. www.hartpury.ac.uk/agri-tech people, sustainably? Digital Innovation Farm

Tech Box Park