questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department is taking steps to help support the (a) development and (b) deployment of (i) robotic and (ii) automated fruit-picking technologies.
answerText: The Government recognises that automation in horticulture (including robotic and automated fruit picking technologies) is a highly productive and valuable component of our wider agricultural system. Defra is supporting the development and deployment of ro...
heading: Fruit: Automation and Robotics