The partnership opens new opportunities for the Canadian agricultural sector to grow more Carinata.
Canada-based Agrisoma Biosciences Inc. signed a new partnership with Uruguay introducing Carinata, a new, renewable, low-carbon cash crop for farmers. Carinata was the crop that fuelled the world’s first 100 per cent bio-jet flight in Ottawa in 2013.
The deal gives the Quebec-based company the opportunity to grow its business outside of Canada by planting thousands of new hectares of the Carinata seed in the South American country.
The partnership opens new opportunities for the Canadian agricultural sector to grow more Carinata and feed the global markets demanding a broad solution for world food security and clean energy.
Under this new deal, both parties anticipate significant economic and rural benefits from production of Carinata in Uruguay as a non-food crop, that can be made into low-carbon bio- and aviation fuels as well as nutritious, genetically-modified organism- (GMO) free animal feed.
