The WET (Water Efficient Technologies) Centre was set up in 2017 to demonstrate Niab's water use efficiency research in practice for commercial strawberry growers. The Centre has now evolved and developed into a facility that investigates ways of optimising key resources using novel approaches, and to increase precision, yields, fruit quality, and yield/harvest profiling in soft fruit crops.

Central to pioneering work done at the WET Centre are the Centre’s partners.

Their contributions enable researchers at East Malling to demonstrate the very latest science and technology and find answers to the soft fruit industry’s most pressing questions.

Berry Gardens, Cocogreen, Delta-T Devices and Netafim have been an integral part of the Centre since its inception, but more recently they have been joined by Stoller and Yara, along with two associates, Hutchinsons and Weatherquest who all take an active role in shaping the work of the Centre and provide their advanced products, knowledge and technological support each season.