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ABOUT US -
CiBiS: a Platform for healthy regions
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Our Mission
Contribute towards circular bioeconomy :
A circular bioeconomy is an economy powered by nature and marries two key sustainability concepts. First, it involves using more renewable resources for energy, chemicals,
and materials – like products made from plants. Second it works to keep those sustainable materials and products in use longer, instead of throwing them away. Rather than becoming garbage or pollution, in
a circular bioeconomy the products are reused, repurposed or recycled.
We aim to contribute towards circular bioeconomy by focusing our research and commercialization efforts to :
o Promote sustainable natural products derived from nature
o Reduce food loss and waste through
improved post-harvest technologies
o Repurpose food, agricultural and animal waste
o Find biobased solutions to help produce food for humans and animals
o Improve livestock management, better nutrition
Signature Programs/Areas :
o Animal nutrition
With increasing global demand for animal based products, animal nutrition plays a crucial role to improve the yield of animal products. CiBiS is exploring novel approaches to develop products providing
optimal and low cost nutrition options to animals such as poultry.
o Sustainable biofuel
Bioenergy is a form of renewable energy that is derived from recently living organic materials known as biomass, which can be used to produce transportation fuels, heat, electricity, and products. CiBiS
is researching and promoting the use of local biomass to produce sustainable biofuels for different applications.
o Post-harvest technologies
According to many studies, farmers in developing countries can lose between 30% and 40% of the value of their fruits, vegetables and grains before they reach the final consumer. These losses are observed during harvest and post-harvest activities such as packing, storage and transportation. Post-harvest quantitative loss up to 15% in the field, 13–20% during processing, and 15–25% during storage have been estimated. Loss during food storage is one of the main contributors to total post-harvest losses. Effective post-harvest storage technologies could significantly contribute toward reducing overall food losses for smallholder farmers and have an immediate and significant impact on their livelihoods. CiBiS is developing storage systems which can minimize grain storage losses for smallholder farmers.
o Waste valorization
Waste valorization is the process of reusing, recycling or composting waste materials and converting them into more useful products including materials, chemicals, fuels or other sources of energy. CiBiS has research and development initiatives to utilize different food, animal, agricultural and industrial wastes and convert them to various value-added products.
Advisory Board
Amit Timilsina
National Agricultual Environment Research Centre Ph D
Birendra Bahadur Rana
Ram Bahadur Khadka
MS, Agriculture - Plant Pathology, Tribhuvan University, Nepal
Prabhat Khanal
Aquaculture (FBA), Nord University, Norway
Ajay Shah
Ph.D., Iowa State University, Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
Basistha Acharya
Regional Agriculture Research Station
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Our Teams
Ashish Manandhar
National Agricultual Environment Research Centre Ph D
Bhupendra Rawal
Tiny Insects with Big Nutrition
EnviroProducts are all natural, locally sourced black solider fly larvae (BSFL), grown and processed in the USA. They are highly palatable, nutritious and require far fewer resources to grow than traditional protein.