Limpopo AgroFood Technology Station (LATS) was established to achieve the eight antipoverty targets known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), within the context of the National Development Plans (NDP) Framework. The Technology Station is well aligned to TIA’s connector service provider strategy. LATS serves as a TIA connector in the Limpopo Province that catalyses partnerships between SMEs, industries and Universities to develop an enabled supporting Agro processing innovation for global competitiveness.

LATS lowers barriers of access to expensive high-end skills and equipment for agro processing innovators by supporting technology based agrifood processing products, processes and services through research and development (R&D) and facilitating the development and improvement of agroprocessing, technology innovation and commercialisation of agrifood products by startups and existing small and micro entrepreneurs in Limpopo Province.