The Agro-Food Technology Station assists SMEs with cutting-edge technologies and partnerships.

Limpopo Agro-food Technology Station offers a wide range of scientific and technical services to the SME's, agricultural co-operation and food industries in developing, enhancing and maintaining safe, efficient and cost-effective food production. The station also offers the following technical services: juice processing from raw products, indigenous and exotic fruits drying, beverages from indigenous tea and wide range technical training to SME's.

The service offered by LATS includes starts from farm to ready to eat food. Typical areas of approach include the following: 

• Advising on pre and post harvest and immediate post-harvest treatment of raw materials 
• Quality control checks and monitoring during production as part of good practice 
• Analyses related to shelf-life 
• New product development, which includes fruit drying with different preservatives concentrations, especially S0 2 . 
• Traditional herbal teas are still an ongoing research , modification of existing product and production of new variants existing lines.
• Auditing and advising preparing for audits by prospective clients.

The station has the capacity to do a full proximate analysis which includes fat, crude fibre, protein, ash, moisture, carbohydrates, and energy. Macro- and micro-elements, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, polyphenols and tannin contents can also be analyzed.