Our Vision and Mission

1. Train an efficient and skilled SMART farming workforce that can rise to meet current demands and proactively contribute to the future requirements of the horticulture sector.  

2. Provide accessible support, trials, networks, information, skills, education and training to horticulture farmers to facilitate a move away from industrial era practices towards a SMART farming model that utilises automation and technology.

3. Deliver skills, training and education to improve the capability of the horticulture industry to manage resource and environmental constraints, while sustainably increasing production, and producing more with less.

The re-purposing of the SuniTAFE Cardross Farm into a SMART Farming Horticulture Training and Innovation Hub will provide a state-of-the-art facility for:

• Vocational training

• Trials and testing

• Education linkages

• Innovation

• Entrepreneurialism

• Industry participation

• Stakeholder engagement

• Shared learning

• New technologies

• Automation

• Start-ups

• Job-ready workforce development.