The WET Centre allows NIAB to showcase the latest technology available for precision production of strawberry and raspberry. It has successfully demonstrated significant savings in water and fertiliser use and how plant yields are influenced by row position in tunnels. Learn how Malling Ace is performing this year and how our growing understanding of tunnel environment can help to optimise yields.

Growing Kent & Medway is investing in sustainable innovation and technologies to help the horticultural and plant-based food and drink industry in the Kent and Medway region to continue to thrive. Learn about some of the research and innovative projects being funded that will help fruit growing businesses to become more sustainable whilst creating circularity and reducing waste.

NIAB is working with several industry partners to understand if growers are achieving complete levels of pollination to maximise nutrition and shelf-life in protected strawberry. Find out how a new acoustic detection method is counting functional groups of insects and whether it will allow growers to detect areas of high and low pollination. New tools are also being assessed to direct insects from areas of high to low pollination.

The Plum Demonstration Centre is part-funded and directed by UK plum growers, who are interested to learn more about how to maximise yield and quality through manipulation of tree growth and irrigation/nutrition programmes. Find out what we have learnt about tree management and water use in recent seasons, and which varieties are performing best in the variety trial area.

Learn about some of the latest innovations in fruit handling and storage including an explanation of how monitoring produce response to storage environments enables us to optimise packaging solutions, storage atmospheres and energy use.

The WET Centre allows NIAB to showcase the latest technology available for precision production of strawberry and raspberry. It has successfully demonstrated significant savings in water and fertiliser use and how plant yields are influenced by row position in tunnels. Learn how Malling Ace is performing this year and how our growing understanding of tunnel environment can help to optimise yields.

The Research Vineyard forms part of the research support being developed by NIAB for a burgeoning grape and wine sector in the UK. Learn more about research comparing spur with cane pruning, along with the impact of different groundcover management practices on soil health, yields and juice quality, and emissions. Also view facilities to monitor vine root growth in NIABs rhizolab.

The WET Centre allows NIAB to showcase the latest technology available for precision production of strawberry and raspberry. It has successfully demonstrated significant savings in water and fertiliser use and how plant yields are influenced by row position in tunnels. Learn how Malling Ace is performing this year and how our growing understanding of tunnel environment can help to optimise yields.

Growing Kent & Medway is investing in sustainable innovation and technologies to help the horticultural and plant-based food and drink industry in the Kent and Medway region to continue to thrive. Learn about some of the research and innovative projects being funded that will help fruit growing businesses to become more sustainable whilst creating circularity and reducing waste.

NIAB is working with several industry partners to understand if growers are achieving complete levels of pollination to maximise nutrition and shelf-life in protected strawberry. Find out how a new acoustic detection method is counting functional groups of insects and whether it will allow growers to detect areas of high and low pollination. New tools are also being assessed to direct insects from areas of high to low pollination.

Learn about some of the latest innovations in fruit handling and storage including an explanation of how monitoring produce response to storage environments enables us to optimise packaging solutions, storage atmospheres and energy use.