Growers Synergy Pte Ltd
Company
Growers Synergy Pte Ltd
Name
Thomas Ong
Designation
Director
Country
Singapore
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Technology Classification
Agro biotech
Main Business Activity
Agriculture, agriculture-related services, and supply of fresh foods and vegetables to supermarkets
Company Profile, Products & Technologies, Target Market:
Growers Synergy Pte Ltd is a Singapore registered agriculture consultancy and farm management company producing and trading crops for the domestic and export markets. The company also supplies fresh fruits and vegetables to the supermarkets in Singapore.
Brief Description of Proposed R&D Project:
Testing suitable varieties and cultivars in Asia geography, and upon successful testing, secure IP in Singapore, setup nurseries in target countries to propagate and supply the seedlings to our contract farmers for cultivation and buy-pack.
Interest in the use and provision of agriculture/aquaculture technologies, systems, inputs, products that are cost-effective, easy to adapt and implement across tropical and sub-tropical farming communities, while reducing over-reliance on chemicals fertilisers, fungicides and pesticides.
Interest in the use and provision of value-added post-harvesting and food processing technologies such as dehydration, extraction, fermentation, etc to derive, transform and increase the functional values of farm produce (aromatics, pigmentation, flavours, nutraceutical compounds)
Role of Requesting Company in Proposed R&D Project:
1. Propagation and adaptation of seedlings in Singapore with strong focus on Intellectual Property protection and control.
2. Grow-out program at suitable countries.
3. Plant registration with the relevant government agencies at the targeted grow-out countries.
4. Branding & marketing program of the crops for major markets like Korea & Japan to secure off-take agreements.
5. R&D program on plant protection, diseases control and further cutlivar hybridisation.
6. R&D on the suitability of using the plant extracts in the crops for nutraceutical use in health supplement and cosmetic industries.
Desired Profile of R&D Partner and its role in the proposed project:
1. Supply and provision of seedlings of crops suitable for cultivation in SE Asia and for the consumer markets in the region.
2. Technical assistance in the propagation and operation of a seedling centre in Singapore.
3. Technical assistance in the cultivation of the crop in the grown-out farms in the region.
4. Co-investment in the propagation centre based in Singapore.