Developing a methane inhibitor for cattle from a daffodil extract.
Agroceutical Products NZ is leveraging IP from a Welsh research company known for its groundbreaking work extracting naturally occurring compounds from daffodils grown at high altitudes, most notably galanthamine which is used to treat Alzheimer’s disease.
Lab trials have shown another compound from daffodils, haemanthamine, could reduce livestock methane emissions by 30 per cent or more, when consumed as a feed additive.
To further investigate its potential as an emissions reduction tool, Agroceutical Products NZ was formed with backing from AgriZeroNZ.
The solution could also provide a potential revenue stream for New Zealand sheep farmers by growing the daffodils required to supply the compound.
