AgriScale - Accelerating Agri-tech manufacturing: Experimental Development
Ref: GRT-1FJJUDDV
Funding Available
Up to £3,000,000
UK Wide
All Sectors
3 June 2026
Grants & Funding
About This Grant
Innovate UK is investing up to £8 million to enable Agri-tech innovators to advance product performance, reliability, manufacturing, and supply chain capability to achieve production at scale. Projects should target getting products to market to accelerate end-user adoption, drive UK Agri-tech frontier industry growth, and improve UK agricultural productivity and sustainability. Proposals must demonstrate how they will move the business, technologies, and products closer to manufacturing readiness.
What Can It Fund?
- manufacturing readiness
- production at scale
- market adoption
- experimental development
- supply chain capability
- product performance
Funding Source
Innovate UK
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