European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development and Common Agricultural Policy Strategic Plan 2023—2027 Intervention LA 16 "Support for the implementation of European Innovation Partnership working group projects" activity "EIP working group project at sector level" agreement No. 25-00-C0LA1601-000024
Project partners are BF-ESSE Ltd. (leading partner), Aneva J Ltd., LSFRI 'Silava', Institute of Food Safety, Animal Health and Environment 'BIOR', Excelsior Trade Ltd., a/f Kurmīši.
The Study aims to develop innovative food and agricultural solutions using bioactive substances and by-products from forest processing resources. The project combines two directions: the development of functional food products — juices with vitamins, polyprenols, chlorophyll, and the use of forest by-products to improve soil fertility and biological plant protection.
The project will result in the creation and testing of prototypes of functional food products — concentrated juices, jellies, lyophilized products, developed technologies for the stabilization of bioactive substances and new fermentation methods for teas. Field trials will also be conducted to introduce forest by-products as soil improvers and coniferous tree extracts as biological plant protection products.