Agritech
Improvements in the wellbeing and supply of livestock can be achieved through the use of data-related technologies such as the Internet of Things and genomic selection techniques. Researchers at the Easter Bush Campus have partnered with many world-leading organisations in agriculture, pharmaceuticals and genetics to bring improvements to the industry, such as reduced risk of disease.
Our AgriTech Hub
Easter Bush
The mission of the Easter Bush Agritech Hub is to achieve sustainable agriculture, control diseases and enhance health through pioneering animal bioscience. Toward sustainable agriculture, the Hub partners with animal breeding companies with global reach to improve the productivity, efficiency and welfare of terrestrial and aquatic farmed animals by dissecting the basis of heritable traits and implementing genomic selection in breeding programmes. With funding from the Gates Foundation and Foreign & Commonwealth Development Office, it also aims to drive genetic gain in farmed animals indigenous to low- and middle-income countries, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa.
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