Biofortification Market OverviewÂ
Bihar, India, starts the nation's first pilot programme for community-based biofortified wheat farming. The Rural Development Council (RDC) of Bihar has chosen Kurkribigha as the nation's first model village for growing biofortified wheat. About 1,800 farmers in Kukribigha village, on the outskirts of Patna, would begin growing biofortified wheat in the upcoming rabi season as part of the state agriculture department's initiative to promote farming of crops with high nutrition value and thereby combat widespread malnutrition.
UPL introduces "Biofortified Vitamin A Orange Maize" in 2021. The goal of "biofortified vitamin A orange maize," a product of agrochemicals company UPL Ltd. and HarvestPlus, is to reach out to farmers and undernourished people.
Some of the Biofortification Companies listed below:
DowDuPont (US), Syngenta (Switzerlind), HarvestPlus (US), Bayer (Germany), BASE SE (Germany), Monsanto, Charles River, LemnaTec, Intertek, and Agro BioSciences Inc.