“By developing biobased biopesticides from by-products of the [cannabis production] industry that is booming at a national level, particularly in the Alentejo, the ValorCannBio project will contribute to the goals set by the European Commission in the Farm to Fork and Biodiversity Strategy of reducing the use of chemically synthesized pesticides by 50% by 2030,” Cristina Azevedo, director of the New Biopesticides Department at InnovPlantProtect (InPP), told Público newspaper.
O ValorCannBio - Valorization of medicinal cannabis by-products as a biopesticide for olive groves“ project”, led by InPP and presented on September 25 to mark National Sustainability Day, The article “Scientists in Portugal want to use cannabis waste to make environmentally friendly pesticides” is featured in Público today.
ValorCannBio is one of the winning projects in the 6th edition of the la Caixa Foundation's Promove Program and aims to transform waste from the production of medicinal cannabis into biological, sustainable pesticides capable of controlling the main olive tree diseases.
The initiative also has the partnership of the Associated Laboratory for Green Chemistry (LAQV) of the Faculty of Science and Technology of the New University of Lisbon NOVA FCT and the companies GreenBePharma and AGR by De Prado.
Find out more in the article featured in Público, available at here.
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