Overcoming the salinity barrier

Projektinformationen

SALICROP

ID Finanzhilfevereinbarung: 887856

DOI

10.3030/887856

Projekt abgeschlossen

EK-Unterschriftsdatum 22 November 2019

Startdatum 1 Dezember 2019

Enddatum 30 April 2020

Finanziert unter

• INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs

Gesamtkosten

€ 71 429,00

EU-Beitrag

€ 50 000,00

Koordiniert durch

SALICROP LTD
Israel

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - SALICROP (Overcoming the salinity barrier)

Berichtszeitraum: 2019-12-01 bis 2020-04-30

Zusammenfassung vom Kontext und den Gesamtzielen des Projekts

Salinity is among the major global burdens limiting food production, natural or human induced, ~20% of the global irrigated soils are already affected by salinity. Seed producers, aware of the billion-dollar business opportunity, have tried to overcome the salinity barrier without success.
Salicrop Ltd, a Israeli Agtech startup, develops seed treatments for saline soil and water, which enables growing crops on marginal land and/or irrigation with brackish water. Salicrop finalized its Proof of Concept (POC) with numerous successful trials of tomatoes, peppers, spinach, rice, wheat and corn with average of 30% increase in crop yield under salinity conditions.

Arbeit, die ab Beginn des Projekts bis zum Ende des durch den Bericht erfassten Berichtszeitraums geleistet wurde, und die wichtigsten bis dahin erzielten Ergebnisse

During the program, we developed Salicrop to achieve the following deliverables:
• Conducting significant field trials, and measuring plant performance
• Regulatory issues and IPR management - potential patentable results, trade secrets/NDAs. Invest scientific and business insights in order to enforce the company IP assets
• Identification of technical risks and barriers. Elaboration of mitigation plansLearning the relevant regulation in our targeted markets
• Establish Internationalisation and commercial strategy and marketing and sales team.
• Collaborate with mid-tier seeds companies in order to test Salicrop seeds treatment.
• Adjustment and fine-tuning of business model. Adapting financial plan to target market, segments, prices and operational costs. Revenue projections.
• Capital requirements, financing options and ROI.

Fortschritte, die über den aktuellen Stand der Technik hinausgehen und voraussichtliche potenzielle Auswirkungen (einschließlich der bis dato erzielten sozioökonomischen Auswirkungen und weiter gefassten gesellschaftlichen Auswirkungen des Projekts)

We conclude the program with results better than our expectations, both commercially and technically. Based on our solid go-to-market strategy and business model, we will continue to leverage our traction and commercially available product to turn Salicrop to a worldwide leader in salinity agriculture.

Agro-World New Delhi 2019