… meeting challenges and exploiting opportunities
The UK horticulture industry faces a number of serious challenges and opportunities.
Competition is driving the need to improve yield and quality whilst exploiting target markets. Pressure from customers is growing (particularly major retail multiples), and a range of other issues have arisen such as imported labour and environmental concerns.
However, important opportunities also exist, such as the drive to locally sourced fresh food, added-value produce and new technologies.
ADAS expertise covers both outdoor and protected crops including fruit, vegetables, hardy nursery stock and ornamentals.
Offering a broad range of research, consultancy and knowledge transfer services, ADAS enables the horticulture industry to deal with the challenges and exploit the opportunities.
ADAS services include:
- Research
Improving crop production and quality. Integrated management of pest, weed and disease. Novel growing systems. Environmental and consumer issues such as water usage, pesticide residues and peat alternatives.
- Strategic/corporate consultancy
Providing growers, the supply chain and Government with authoritative advice on resource/environmental management, quality management, audit schemes and business management.
Crop production consultancy
Services to improve yield, quality, profitability and environmental performance including crop planning and scheduling, production systems, production stages (propagation, growing on, storage, dispatch), crop environment, crop protection, pest monitoring and prediction, nutrition and novel crops. Click here for Carbon footprinting.
ADAS contact: Barry.Mulholland@adas.co.uk or James.Clarke@adas.co.uk
Tel: 01954 267666