The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) is a statutory levy board. They are funded by farmers, growers and others in the supply chain through statutory levies.

Their purpose is to make their agriculture and horticulture industries more competitive and sustainable through factual, evidence-based advice, information and activity:

• They manage extensive research and development programmes which are delivering scientifically robust and commercially useful outcomes for their levy payers
• They undertake efficient farm-level knowledge transfer programmes based on evidence, both from third party science and their own R&D, aimed at improving efficiency, productivity and sustainability 
• They provide unbiased, high quality market information that helps business decision making and improves supply chain transparency 
• They carry out export market development work and also domestic marketing activity to inspire and inform consumers in order to assist the economic viability of sectors which require this 
• They raise awareness of food and where it comes from among school children and they help ensure the agriculture and horticulture industries are able to develop and attract workers with the skills they need 
• They also ensure that proper account is taken of Government priorities for agriculture and the agri-food industry, where appropriate.