• Login/Join
    • Login
    • Join Agri-TechE
Menu
  • Login/Join
    • Login
    • Join Agri-TechE
  • Home
  • About
    • About Agri-TechE
    • Stakeholder Group
    • Introductions to the agri-tech cluster
    • International
    • Agri-Tech Briefings
      • Controlled Environment Agriculture
      • Gene editing consultation – what does it mean for agri-tech?
      • Controlling light in farming
      • What is ELMs? Agri-Tech to support Environmental Land Management
    • Agri-TechE Newsletters
      • Sign up to the newsletter
  • Events
    • Upcoming Events
    • Agri-TechE activities, conferences and missions for 2022
    • REAP Conference 2022
    • Agri-Tech Week
    • Our Publications
  • Articles
    • Agri-tech News
    • Member News
    • Monthly Musings
    • Innovator Spotlight
    • Leaders in the Field
    • Agri-Tech Archives
  • Community
    • Research Digest
    • Opportunity Zone
    • Early-Career Innovators’ Forum (ECIF)
    • Funding Latest
  • Members
    • Directory
    • Become an Agri-TechE Member
    • Member Testimonials
    • Increasing your profile
    • Agri-TechE Member Drop-In
  • Contact Us
Menu
  • Home
  • About
    • About Agri-TechE
    • Stakeholder Group
    • Introductions to the agri-tech cluster
    • International
    • Agri-Tech Briefings
      • Controlled Environment Agriculture
      • Gene editing consultation – what does it mean for agri-tech?
      • Controlling light in farming
      • What is ELMs? Agri-Tech to support Environmental Land Management
    • Agri-TechE Newsletters
      • Sign up to the newsletter
  • Events
    • Upcoming Events
    • Agri-TechE activities, conferences and missions for 2022
    • REAP Conference 2022
    • Agri-Tech Week
    • Our Publications
  • Articles
    • Agri-tech News
    • Member News
    • Monthly Musings
    • Innovator Spotlight
    • Leaders in the Field
    • Agri-Tech Archives
  • Community
    • Research Digest
    • Opportunity Zone
    • Early-Career Innovators’ Forum (ECIF)
    • Funding Latest
  • Members
    • Directory
    • Become an Agri-TechE Member
    • Member Testimonials
    • Increasing your profile
    • Agri-TechE Member Drop-In
  • Contact Us

Search

More results…

Generic filters
Exact matches only

  • Member News, renewables, Supporting Innovation, Sustainability
  • Eastern Agri-Tech Innovation Hub, insects

Business idea for reducing food waste?

  • May 7, 2019
  • 5:41 pm

Early stage companies or university spinouts with a great business idea that will reduce waste and food surplus or make an agri-food process more efficient are being offered the opportunity to join the Eastern Agri-Tech Innovation Hub.

Rt Hon Lynne Truss MP, Rt Hon George Freeman MP and Dr Tina Barsby OBE CEO of NIAB at the opening of the Eastern Agri-Tech Innovation Hub

The hub is a purpose-built facility in the heart of Cambridgeshire, with a particular focus on fresh produce and field vegetables. It welcomes farmers and growers, food businesses, and other users wishing to engage in applied research work to reduce or re-use all forms of waste in the food supply chain and improve resource use efficiency in its production.

It offers a workspace with meeting rooms and office space at competitive rates. Members of the hub community are also given: support with funding applications;  opportunities to be involved with NIAB projects; access to NIAB expertise, and networking with industry, growers, research and local government.

Research and trial activity managed by NIAB at the hub include:

  • waste reduction — healthy soils, crop production, field and post harvest storage
  • waste management — packing, processing and alternative uses and markets
  • increase value or application potential for new products from waste streams
  • identifying opportunities to recycle waste or generate energy and co-products
  • target total and marketable field losses, due to weather, pests and diseases or other damage
  • reduce loss of quality or specification in store due to crop physiology, disease or storage conditions.

The hub supports these and about 50 other businesses virtually, with workshops, events, grant and industry collaboration, funding and expertise. Some start-ups also have had physical space at the hub such as Aponic, AgriGrub, Celbius and Entomics.

  • Celbius – producing a natural slug repellent from olive by-products which are left after producing olive oil. http://www.celbius.com/
  • AgriGrub – uses the larvae of black soldier flies to turn food waste into high value outputs such as fish food, bio-oils and soil conditioner. (https://www.agrigrub.co.uk/)
  • Comgoed is an Interreg 2 seas bioboost partner from the Netherlands) it produces wood pellets and chips from green residuals for large industrial biomass power plants as well as semi-industrial plants for farmers, gardeners and SMES.

For more information please call Denise Elliot on 01223 342227 or email denise.elliott@niab.com

Eastern Agri-Tech Innovation Hub & Bioboost

Hasse Fen, Hasse Road, Soham, Cambridgeshire CB7 5UW

Share

Share on facebook
Share on twitter
Share on linkedin
Related Posts
  • Better Origin insect farm raises $3M to provide alternative protein for animal feed
  • Cambridge agritech incubator Barn4 on NIAB Park Farm gains funding
  • Which flowers do bees prefer? Portable sequencer provides answers
  • PheroSyn to develop supply of novel pheromones for the pear gall midge and the pear leaf midge
  • Morrison replacing soy with insect protein from Better Origin
Archives

Agri-TechE on Twitter

Tweets by AgriTechE 

MORE INFORMATION

  • News archive
  • Privacy
  • Events
  • Newsletter sign-up
  • View latest newsletter
Menu
  • News archive
  • Privacy
  • Events
  • Newsletter sign-up
  • View latest newsletter
Twitter Facebook Youtube Linkedin Instagram

© Agri-TechE 2022

Site design by Out of House