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Agmardt

The Agricultural and Marketing Research and Development Trust, better known as AGMARDT, strategically invests in programmes that enable individuals and businesses to innovate, to be industry leading, and to exploit valuable opportunities – all with the ultimate vision of driving continued growth of New Zealand’s diverse agricultural sectors.

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About

Us

As ‘Future Shapers’ – we’re about helping the NZ agribusiness sectors meet the challenges of tomorrow

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Grants and

Scholarships

In a bid to help grow New Zealand’s agricultural sector, we’ve provided more than $87m worth of funding to date – find out how we might be able to support you or your business.

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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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Our

Stories

With more than 1500 grants awarded to date, we’ve got some great stories to share with you.

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Industry

News

Stay up to date with our latest news.

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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