Farming Innovation Programme: Feasibility Round 5

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) will invest up to £15 million to fund innovation projects in this competition. This funding is part of Defra's Farming Innovation Programme which is delivered in partnership with Innovate UK. The aim of this competition is to fund feasibility studies investigating new solutions that will address major on-farm or immediate post farmgate challenges or opportunities. The funding will support projects to: investigate early stage solutions that have the potential to substantially improve the overall productivity, sustainability and resilience of farming, and move existing agricultural sectors to net zero prioritise solutions that will have positive outputs for farmers, growers and foresters in commercially relevant situations accelerate research and development of new agricultural solutions by actively engaging collaboration with the wider UK research community in the innovation process Your project must address a significant industry challenge or opportunity in at least one of the four industry subsectors below: farmed animals plants novel food production systems bioeconomy and agroforestry Your proposal must be able to demonstrate how the project will benefit farmers, growers or foresters in England. Projects must be collaborative and led by a UK business (this can include sole traders or partnerships).