Agriculture Roundup for Friday January 21, 2022
MELFORT, Sask. — The semi-finalists in the Food Waste Reduction Challenge have been determined.
Agriculture and Agri-Food minister Marie-Claude Bibeau said 18 projects have been selected.
The semi-finalists’ entries range from green chemistry to the creation of natural additives, edible coatings, or bioplastics. Each semi-finalist will receive $100,000 and move on to the prototype development stage. Over the next eight months, semi-finalists will build or complete an existing prototype of their technology and report on their solution’s effectiveness.
A total of six finalists for the Novel Technologies Streams will be selected, each receiving up to an additional $450,000 with finalists competing to win one of two grand prizes of up to $1 million.