Growing Kent & Medway

Small and micro businesses in the food sector play a critical role in the sustainability of our food systems. But with limited resources, how can we support them on the journey to net-zero?

A formal collaboration agreement between Produced in Kent and Growing Kent & Medway will provide innovative plant and produce food businesses with extended support to scale their market growth.

British Apples and Pears, in collaboration with Niab, utilised one of our small grant programmes to trial novel treatments for apple scab. The project identified a promising alternative to lost chemical fungicides and proved that a risk-based spray programme could reduce application costs by £65 per hectare.