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Pongamia trees: For more beans per acre

22-05-2019 | |
Naveen Sikka: "Our mission is to help farmers feed people while taking care of the planet. We hope that we can help the pongamia crop realise its full potential as a resilient, sustainable, high-yielding option to grow protein on trees." Photo: TerViva Bioenergy Inc.
Naveen Sikka: "Our mission is to help farmers feed people while taking care of the planet. We hope that we can help the pongamia crop realise its full potential as a resilient, sustainable, high-yielding option to grow protein on trees." Photo: TerViva Bioenergy Inc.
TerViva, an agriculture technology firm commercialising resilient pongamia trees raised an additional $20 million in its first close of its Series D funding and current commitments. All About Feed talked to Naveen Sikka, CEO of the company about these special trees that produce as much as ten times the amount of beans per acre as soy. The pongamia tree produces a legume that is related to beans, peas and lentils and has been harvested for mostly medicinal uses for more than 1,000 years. As a pl


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