The UK-India Smart Farm Club is a coalition of UK and India research groups and innovators that join forces to tackle research and innovation challenges in the area of ‘smart farming’.
A range of Smart Farm Club events and networking opportunities will create links between the ideas of the future and the funds that can make them happen, and give members access to masterclasses on how UK-India research partnerships can deliver optimal results.
Smart Farming involves managing farms using technologies to increase the quantity and quality of products while optimizing the human labour required. Currently the technologies used include sensors, specialised software, use of satellites, robotics and data analytics, but the Club will remain agile and open-minded, adding in new innovations and tech into discussions as and when they materialise.
Envisaged Outcomes
- Club members gain an enhanced knowledge of pioneering, innovative research and innovation solutions to better adapt smart farming technologies for the end user.
- Members will share updates on trends, potential pilot opportunities and future collaborations in the UK and India on a routine basis. This will complement regular briefings on strengths and capabilities of R&I ecosystems in both countries, leading to more diverse collaboration tackling a wider range of global and challenges in the agri sector.
- The Club will strengthen deeper and more diverse links between industry and academia in the UK and India, underpinned by best practice examples to enable seamless collaboration.
- Smart Farm Club “matchmaking” channels will boost networking between UK and Indian researchers and innovators, with new sources of R&D funding (public, private and philanthropists) to bring high potential research and innovation aligned with key priorities of both countries to market.
- Opportunity for Club members to form a strong talent pipeline of the finest minds in the UK and Indian “smart farm” ecosystems, through development of longer term people to people exchanges.
