OlsAro Crop Biotech

We’re an agtech startup, working with adapting the large staple crop wheat to climate change and sustainable farming. We’re aiming for food security by increasing domestic farming in food-insecure areas and decreasing the dependence on external factors, such as market fluctuations due to, for instance, conflicts.

The company’s first innovation is salt-tolerant wheat for Bangladesh. According to FAO, 9% of the land globally and 20-50% of the irrigated land is today salt contaminated according. And the numbers are increasing. This is due to climate change with flooding, cyclones, and more, and bad irrigation practices in absence of fresh water

And apart from salt tolerance OlsAro can also head for other climate adaption traits such as drought tolerance as well as traits that support sustainable and regenerative cultivation such as nitrogen efficiency as well as improving nutrition with for instance high fibre, protein, and more