Centre for Crop Health and Protection
Improving crop productivity and yield around the world.
About the Centre for Crop Health and Protection
The Centre for Crop Health and Protection (CHAP) is advancing crop productivity and yield worldwide by bringing together scientists, farmers, advisors and pioneers.
As a Government Agri-tech Innovation Centre, CHAP:
- supports sustainable and profitable farming
- promotes the adoption of new plant-protection products
- empowers farmers with technology to tackle threats to crop productivity
- offers mobile field labs for testing eco-friendly pesticides and biocontrol agents
Mobile field labs
Our mobile labs are a part of CHAP. The labs bring molecular diagnostics and other advanced equipment from the lab to the farm.
Designed and commissioned by Newcastle University Farms, these towable trailers are fully autonomous ‘in-field’ laboratories.
CHAP uses these mobile field labs for evaluating and testing eco-friendly pesticides and biocontrol agents. The trailers are equipped with scientific equipment and perform on-farm testing and diagnostics throughout Europe.