Explore Australian and global agrifood innovation

Opportunity for

• Integration partners with ag insights or scheduling platforms
• Industry and R&D groups in cotton, horticulture, and viticulture for trial collaboration
• Commercial trial site partners across regional Australia
• Investors seeking scalable AgTech opportunities in irrigation, drought resilience, and precision agriculture

Opportunity description

Industry challenge

Across irrigated agriculture, system failures and energy inefficiencies remain a major cost and risk to growers. Traditional manual irrigation management can lead to water waste, crop loss, and energy overuse — as well as labour inefficiencies and missed opportunities for growers. Meanwhile, the transition to automated irrigation is slowed by fragmented infrastructure and variable farmer confidence in digital systems. As demand grows for smarter, integrated irrigation solutions that improve reliability, resilience, and sustainability, particularly in climate-affected and water-regulated regions, scalable tools that simplify adoption and enhance trust are urgently needed.

Current opportunity

Aglantis is seeking partners to support its expansion into new industries and regions...

Opportunity for

• Australian Innovators and researchers with drought-resilience focused technologies or practices that have reached applied research stage that have potential to be scaled up and adopted at a cross-regional, industry or system-wide level.

Opportunity description

Industry challenge

Australian agriculture is facing increasingly complex and multi-dimensional challenges due to drought and climate variability. To ensure the sector remains productive and sustainable, we need solutions that go beyond business-as-usual. That is why the Innovation Challenges Pilot focuses on transformational change, guided by insights from farmers, researchers, innovators, First Nations People, and regional communities.

The Australian Government’s Innovation Challenges Pilot is now open, with $20 million in funding to support bold, collaborative solutions that address the complex impacts of drought and climate change on agriculture.

Current opportunity

This initiative, delivered through the Future Drought Fund (FDF), takes a challenge-based approach designed to foster transformative innovation rather than incremental improvements. It aims to...