Round six of the ADOPT (Accelerating Development of Practices and Technologies) fund has opened, offering grants to farmers and farm businesses to trial new technology and practices on farm.
A total of £5 million is available with two types of grants are available:
• Full ADOPT grant for on-farm trial and demonstration project to improve adoption of new ideas or solutions in the agricultural sector. Projects must have total costs of between £50,000 and £100,000
• ADOPT Facilitator Support Grant of £2,500 for a farmer, grower or forester based in England to engage an external Project Facilitator to support submissions to the Full ADOPT Grant competition
Defra says the fund is there to speed up the development and adoption of new ideas, so more farmers can put them into practice sooner. Applications close on Wednesday, 8 April, and Wednesda,y 25 February, respectively.
