We are the Agricultural and Marketing Research and Development Trust, better known as AGMARDT.

We strategically invest in initiatives to encourage innovative thinking, research capability and collaboration and to develop emerging leaders in New Zealand’s primary sector – all with the goal of accelerating positive change and igniting a better future for food and fibres in Aotearoa New Zealand.

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Leadership Scholarships are now open – EXTENDED to Sunday 9th October 2022.  Click on the link to view. 

About

Us

As ‘Future Shapers’ – we want to ignite a better future for the food & fibres sector.

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Grants and

Scholarships

We have provided more than $90 million of funding so far to support the success of agribusinesses - how can we help you?

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Applications

Portal

Interested in applying for one of our grants or scholarships? You can do it online today.

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Industry

News

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Our

Stories

With more than 1700 grants awarded to date, we’ve got some great stories to share with you.

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Our

Team

Meet the team who keep AGMARDT thriving.

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We are grateful for the assistance the AGMARDT Grant provided. It has allowed Freshco to direct sales and manage our own destinies in each market enabling us to extract more value from the supply chain to the consumer.

John Mangan / Director, Freshco

AGMARDT supports and enables. Projects and people benefit from funding; New Zealand benefits from development of ideas, technologies, approaches and leadership. In particular, the trust facilitates information dissemination: AGMARDT is the catalyst for ripples that spread through the primary sector.

Dr Jacqueline Rowarth /

AGMARDT's support of Texus in the above process tangibly accelerated the development of the above essential activities and testing of market entry strategy, while also exposing Texus management to cutting-edge thought leadership around market shaping and the levers that can be applied to scope and facilitate such shaping.

Nick Davenport / CEO, Texus Fibre Industry Leader Scholarship Winner

The support from AGMARDT has enabled us to gain greater insights into farmer behaviour across all sectors and which will assist accelerated uptake of the livestock exchange and enhance market opportunities for all farmers.

Jason Roebuck / Managing Director, Stock-X Limited