AGMARDT aims to foster innovation within the agribusiness sector, supporting projects that facilitate transformational change in the agricultural, horticultural, and forestry sectors. By providing funding for innovative ideas, AGMARDT seeks to encourage industry-led innovation that combines science, production, processing, and marketing to achieve sustainable growth and competitive advantages.
The Agribusiness Innovation Grants program aims to stimulate transformational change within agribusiness value chains, particularly in the agricultural, horticultural, and forestry sectors. It provides grants up to $200,000 for businesses, researchers, and industry groups to develop and evaluate innovative ideas that can lead to commercialisation. The program encourages applicants to pursue groundbreaking ideas that could transform businesses or industries, understand world-class best practices, accelerate innovation, and promote industry-led innovation and collaboration by linking science, producers, processors, and marketers.