Agriculture meets industrial biotech to create value from daffodils
For around 15 years Grampian Growers have been exporting a proportion of their daffodil crop to a European pharma company for the extraction of Galantamine. As part of their zero-waste strategy and creating added value to their crop, Grampian Growers are working collaboratively with partners to explore how biorefining may yield other bioactives suitable for nutraceutical and health supplement markets.
The event will tell the journey an agri co-op has taken with partners to create value from their daffodil crops by exploring new markets through the application of industrial biotech. Their story will reinforce the need for cross sector collaboration to drive value from biomass as part of Scotland’s circular bioeconomy.
Themes of the day will stem from ‘dancing with daffodils’, exploiting daffodil-derived carotenoids and flavonoids, galantamine and many more bioeconomy related projects.
We have a line up of the top academia in the industry who will give the audience an insight into their work and future projects. Grampian Growers and SAOS will give their views from an agri perspective and highlight the requirement for our industries to collaborate.
2pm: Welcome by Grampian Growers – Mark Clark, Ailsa Cargill, and Claire Dyce
2:15pm: Kevin Stephens (Agroceutical Products Ltd)
2:35pm: Prof Cherry Wainright & Giovanna Bermano - RGU
2:55pm: Prof Jamie Newbold, SRUC
3:15pm: Helen Glass (SAOS and C2Network)
3:35 pm: Close & questions
The event is aimed at policy makers, enterprise and economic development agencies, funding bodies and downstream processing biotech SMEs. The event will highlight how the Scottish biotech processing sector can collaborate with Scottish agriculture to yield added value opportunities.
Attendees to gain insight into how, through co-operation, the agriculture sector can contribute to the bioeconomy of Scotland. Attendees will hear about several ongoing as well as future projects.
Attendance is by invitation only. Contact Claire Dyce claire@grampiangrowers.co.uk for more information.
