date:Jul 24, 2013
-tech team to boost exports and overseas investment in the UK's agricultural technologies
The government has also announced an investment of 30m for four agri-science research and innovation campuses by Biotechnolocy and Biological Sciences Research Council; and a multi million pound scientific research partnership between Rothamsted and Syngenta to increase wheat productivity.
Defra Minister for Science Lord De Mauley said there is a global challenge to feed the rapidly increasing population