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Growing Kent & Medway at Fruit Focus LIVE 2020
Growing Kent & Medway will be at this year’s Fruit Focus LIVE – the UK’s leading technical event for the fruit industry, taking place on the 9 & 10 September 2020.

Funding backs world-class innovation in horticulture
NIAB EMR has secured £1.68 million from the South East LEP for the East Malling Advanced Technology Horticultural Zone (ATHZ) project, a cutting-edge Innovation Campus for horticulture in Kent.

Growing Kent & Medway secures £18m boost
Growing Kent & Medway has been awarded £18m of government funding to strengthen the competitiveness of Britain’s horticulture, food and drink industries.

Growing Kent & Medway partners join consortium awarded a multi-million pound UK investment in biosciences
The University of Kent and NIAB EMR part of the South Coast Biosciences Doctoral Training Partnership collaboration.

Vision for science will benefit growers, consumers and the environment
Farm Expo 2020: Presenting a vision of data-driven science to provide practical solutions to the complex challenges facing agriculture in the UK.

International collaboration to drive food and drink innovation
Growing Kent & Medway partners explore opportunities for collaboration in food and drink innovation with Oost NL, the East Netherlands Development Agency.

Technology and innovation at the National Fruit Show
With its strong focus on innovation and technology the National Fruit Show attracts interest from industry leaders, technology providers and policy makers.

State-of-the-art research winery opens in Kent
Based at NIAB EMR in East Malling, the UK now has a bespoke, state-of-the-art research winery and vineyard to underpin the rapidly expanding viticulture sector.

Kent and Netherlands forge partnership
A new agreement aimed at developing innovative food and drink trade and investment opportunities in the UK and the Netherlands has been signed today.

Fruit Focus
Growing Kent & Medway attended this year’s Fruit Focus, the leading technical event for the fruit industry, hosted by NIAB EMR at East Malling in Kent.