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MERCED, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Merced College volition soon interruption crushed connected a $21.5 cardinal task that volition hole students for what they accidental is the "future of ag-tech."
The AgTEC Innovation Center is described arsenic a cutting-edge installation that is simply a halfway constituent of its enactment to revolutionize cultivation acquisition and workforce improvement successful the Central Valley.
The assemblage says that erstwhile completed, the AgTec Innovation Center volition person state-of-the-art facilities designed to enactment hands-on learning and manufacture collaboration, including:
- Advanced Processing Equipment: Students volition bid connected cutting-edge nut, fruit, and rootlike processing equipment, arsenic good arsenic nutrient processing and nutrient information systems, mirroring real-world cultivation operations.
- Agricultural Research & Development: A nutrition installation and commercialized room volition enactment nutrient merchandise innovation and testing.
- Workforce Training Hub: Dedicated spaces for industry-led training, vocation development, and entrepreneurship initiatives.
- Community Farm Market: A retail storefront wherever students volition summation agribusiness acquisition portion providing fresh, locally grown products to the public.
The assemblage says this was funded successful portion by the Fresno-Merced Future of Food (F3) initiative—along with a $15 cardinal concern from the authorities made imaginable by State Sen. Anna Caballero. The full outgo of the task is $21.5 million.
According to the college, the installation volition complement existing initiatives specified arsenic the Reservoir Farms robotics incubator and the college’s expanding relation successful sustainable, high-tech agriculture.
The groundbreaking ceremonial for the Innovation Center volition beryllium connected April 17.
