Winners announced for The World BioProtection Awards 2022

The purpose of the awards is to address the pressing need to develop alternatives to chemical crop protection in sustainable food production

The World BioProtection Forum (WBF) hosted the 2nd Annual World BioProtection Summit and Awards 2022 at the National Exhibition Centre (NEC), Birmingham (UK), to address the pressing need to develop alternatives to chemical crop protection in sustainable food production.

The winners are:

• Best Bioinsecticide Product – Cearitis for PIRA, an autonomous device that diffuses a natural attractant to trap fruit flies outside of olive orchards.
• Best Biofungicide Product – Biotalys for Evoca, and Oro Agri for PREV-AM®.
• Best Biochemical Product – STK Bio-Ag Technologies for REGEV, the first ‘hybrid’ foliar fungicide.
• Best Biostimulant Product – FMC Corporation for Accudo, a versatile microbial biostimulant, and Sri Bio for IndiRoots, a unique granular formulation of multi-microbial plant stimulants.
• Best Biofertiliser Product – Tradecorp, for Phós’UP, a new biofertiliser coming to the market this year.
• Best Innovative Research Project of the Year –International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) for Aflasafe, a solution to the problem of aflatoxin contamination in agricultural produce.
• Industry Collaboration of the Year – UPL and Zespri Kiwifruit who worked together on a new product called Aureo Gold.
• Biotech Start-up Business of The Year – Botanical Solutions Inc (BSI).
• Best Young Entrepreneur Award – Dr Fatma Kaplan, Founder and CEO of Pheronym.
• Outstanding Achievement Award – Dr Willem Ravensberg, Corporate Sr Regulatory and Governmental Affairs Manager, Koppert Biological Systems.

The purpose of the awards is to