Thanet Earth has teamed up with Hadlow College to offer a sponsored student fellowship in a bid to boost its tomato NPD.

Student Tom Pilcher will be paid to spend nine months working from a dedicated greenhouse at Hadlow, which has been equipped with a growing system comparable with a commercial greenhouse.

Thanet said it hoped the fellowship would “yield some exciting new varieties to take forward into commercial greenhouse trials and ultimately on to shelves”.

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