A NORTH Yorkshire technology centre is today welcoming delegates as it hosts board and committee meetings for a national association.

Directors and staff at Stockbridge Technology Centre, based near Selby, will today and tomorrow welcome the Tomato Growers Association to their facilities.

The Technology Centre has been selected as the venue for the TGA Board and Technical Committee meetings.

TGA chairman Nigel Bartle said he is looking forward to the meetings.

He said: "Stockbridge Technology Centre is a great meeting venue with excellent facilities and now has the added attraction of a state of the art glasshouse to trial LED lights for long season crops like tomatoes.

"We are looking forward to having a very productive and stimulating couple of days."

Stockbridge Technology Centre board member Martin Evans said: "We are delighted to welcome the TGA to Stockbridge and to showcase the new LED facility."

Stockbridge Technology Centre is an independent, not for profit organisation that is wholly owned by the UK horticultural industry and is a centre of excellence in technology transfer to agriculture and horticulture.

The TGA represents British commercial tomato growers and exists to create a clear identity for high quality, home grown tomatoes and persuade people to look at the label to see where they are grown. The TGA also founded British Tomato Week that will take place next year between May 18 and 24, 2015.