A £1.25m investment in an East Cambridgeshire innovation hub is helping to develop a rich variety of businesses linking science and agriculture.
There is, for example, Agrihub that uses waste fruit and vegetables that would end up in landfills as feed for black soldier fly larvae.
These larvae are used in pet and livestock feed and their waste products may have a role in crop nutrition and protection.
Another, Cambond, is developing a carbon-neutral bio-resin adhesive from waste from the brewing industry. Business board chair Austen Adams said: “Some of the environmental benefits that can flow from work being done here in waste reduction is really quite breath-taking.”
Both are part of the Eastern AgriTech Innovation Hub in Hasse Road, Soham, and run by NIAB, one of Britain’s oldest agricultural science research centers.
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