Food security is paramount. Local, sustainable supply of produce is needed.
Nutritious, safe and quality produce to meet increasingly diversified consumer requirements.
Labour scarcity or desire to enhance local business opportunity.
Address resource depletion and environmental challenges with sustainable and reliable agricultural innovation.
Delivery of wide range of crops for local diets, all year round, in any location in the world.
Import dependency is greatly reduced.
Environmentally sound production – minimal waste, low food miles and no pesticides.
Quality, nutritious and flavoursome produce guaranteed.
Collaboration with crop science experts (at The James Hutton Institute).
Employment for teams of local workers and new skills capabilities.
Enhancing local supply chain and logistics functionality.
If labour is scarce or expensive a fully automated farm can be installed.
Scarce land or water can be optimised with a smaller, more efficient growing system in any region of the world.
IGS systems are more efficient and consume less power than competitors.
Renewable energy can be used ruling out hydrocarbons altogether.
IGS closed-loop irrigation systems ensure the only water leaving the farm is inside the crops itself: the rest is recovered and re-used.