VerFa Agrifood Innovations Inc.

$214,308.00 CAD

≈ 3 Canadians' average pay for a year
Department
National Research Council Canada
Program
Industrial Research Assistance Program
Recipient country
Canada
Fiscal year
2026-2027
Agreement period
June 15, 2026 – November 22, 2027
Reference
nrc-cnrc:172-2026-2027-Q1-1043978

Published purpose

Building up on the Firm's success in designing and developing an innovative, clean, lean, dry indoor vertical farming (IVF) system, and developing a unique, innovative "Zero-Touch" microgreen production technologies, which reduced the energy costs by 47X, with highest space use efficiency, zero-pesticides, zero-water wastage, zero-nutrient wastage, zero-produce wastage, and developing a multi-spectral imaging technology for quality and yield consistency monitoring, this project further advances the Firm's critical need to optimize the LED light spectral effects on microgreen yield and quality, develop non-chemical technologies for eliminating or minimizing any potential contamination, and develop an appropriate seeds for consistent yield and quality.

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