Tatton Consulting supported Growing Underground in its successful application to ISCF Productive and Sustainable Crop and Livestock Systems, awarded £989,807 by Innovate UK for the project Co-ordinated technology development to provide an optimised and integrated system of leading vertical farming technologies.
About the funded R&D project
Vertical farming grows well as a set of individual technologies and badly as a system: lighting, hydroponics, climate control and automation are each developed by different suppliers optimising for different things. This project integrated leading vertical farming technologies into a co-ordinated system, which is the step that determines whether the sector’s energy and yield economics work at commercial scale.
Award details
- Total project grant: £989,807
- Competition: ISCF Productive and Sustainable Crop and Livestock Systems
- Year: 2018/19
- Project: Co-ordinated technology development to provide an optimised and integrated system of leading vertical farming technologies
- Sector: Vertical farming / controlled environment agriculture
- Independent verification: Innovate UK funded projects transparency dataset (UKRI), published 10 August 2026
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