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New innovations to fuel the future of NZ’s food, fibre and agritech sector

A range of radical solutions are now a step closer to boosting the agricultural sector thanks to the Food, Fibre and Agritech Supernode Challenge. Prize winners were named at the Showcase on 11 May.

Karben Fibre founder Maryam Shojaei presenting at the final showcase.

KarbenFibre, an environmentally friendly battery technology to optimise and reduce the cost of flow batteries using natural fibres was named overall winner in the Value-Added Product category and runner-up in the Research category.

The grand prize in Enterprise was won by Genesmith with their technology using facial recognition on livestock.

Enterprise Runner-up and Top Small Business Award went to Happy Cow Milk Co with their milk factory in a box enabling farmers to become fully compliant milk processors.

A commendation went to MET System for their ‘set and forget’ automated response to weather, designed to eliminate crop yield damage.

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