Farming matters: Fraser Black - "Agri-Tech Strategy vision was to make UK a global leader"

You have been hiding under a rock for the last 10 years if you know nothing about agri-tech

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Farming matters: Fraser Black - "Agri-Tech Strategy vision was to make UK a global leader"

And whatever your political persuasion, the emergence of the Agri-Tech Centres in 2016 can be viewed as part of the great success that has made agri-tech an element of the country's overall industrial...

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