Liberty Produce is now a CHAP Category B Partner
31st July 2019
London, UK
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Press Release: Liberty Produce and Partners announced as CHAP Category B Partner
Liberty Produce, a UK-based farming and technology company with expertise indoor vertical farming systems, has been announced as a Crop Health and Protection (CHAP) Category B Partner. CHAP, a UK Agri-Tech centre for innovation, will partner with Liberty Produce to accelerate the development of the UK vertical farming sector.
This partnership marks a significant step forward in the development of integrated technologies which will benefit the UK agricultural market. This is illustrated by the upcoming CHAP and Liberty Produce joint commercial demonstrator system, the Innovation Hub for Controlled-Environment Agriculture (IHCEA), due to launch at the James Hutton Institute in Dundee this year. This system, designed specifically for research and development, will enable industry to understand and tackle the barriers to adoption of new vertical farming technologies.
CHAP CEO, Fraser Black said: “We are delighted to have Liberty Produce join as a category B partner of CHAP and we are looking forward to helping them forge a position as a leading technology developer in controlled-environment agriculture.”
Zeina Chapman, co-founder of Liberty Produce commented: “This vital partnership allows us to explicitly link the research and development of new vertical farming technologies to tangible benefits for growers. The greater vision is to enable the UK to become a global leader in the industry and meet our food requirements without harming the planet.”
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About Liberty Produce:
Liberty Produce is a farming technology company, enabling the growth of local produce year-round, using a fully-controlled, industry-leading, indoor vertical farming system. With expertise in lighting and nutrient delivery technology, Liberty develops and builds systems that reduce operational costs and improve yields of crops grown in controlled-environment farms. Their vision is to drive innovations that will enable the UK to meet our food requirements over the next century, without harming the planet.
For further information contact:
Benita Rajania
About CHAP
Crop Health and Protection (CHAP), funded by Innovate UK, is one of four UK Agri-Tech
Centres. CHAP’s vision is for the UK to be a global leader in the development of applied agri-technologies, to help secure our future by nourishing a growing population sustainably while delivering economic, environmental and health benefits to society.
CHAP acts as a unique, independent nexus between UK government, researchers and industry, building innovation networks to identify and accelerate the development of cutting-edge solutions to drive incremental, transformative and disruptive changes in sustainable crop productivity and to establish controlled environment agriculture (CEA) as a core competency.
For further information contact:
Linsey Cresswell