Project 17 is a Small-Business-Administration funded project to create a regional Advanced Agricultural Technology business cluster that will increase bottom-line profitability for the agricultural industry, create regional jobs and stimulate economic development.
Project 17 dovetails the technology oozing over the hill from Silicon Valley and out of our many research institutions, like UCSC and the Naval Postgraduate School, with our powerful agricultural presence and tradition and build technology companies that emerge as the advanced agricultural technology center of the world. Growers and shippers, agronomists, horticulturalists, mechanical engineers, water and energy conservations specialists, software developers, RFID specialists, and service providers -- Click here to go to the Project 17 website and find out how you can be a part of this exciting new regional innovation cluster.