Overview
Vive Crop Protection (Mississauga, ON) is an agri-tech company making cutting-edge crop protection products including fungicides and insecticides.
What they’re doing: Vive is creating a precision pesticide that targets the genes of specific pests doing damage to crops but is harmless to all other species.
How will this be used in the real world? The agriculture industry is trying to move away from synthetic pesticides and Vive Crop is there to fill the void with their biopesticide that targets only specific pests. Having that kind of accuracy and with no damage to other species (including humans!), this will reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the agriculture sector and costs to farmers who will need less pesticide.