Ontario quinoa industry optimization

安大略省藜麦产业优化

• 批准号: 509251-2017
• 负责人: Newmaster, Steve
• 金额: $ 5.27万
• 依托单位: University of Guelph
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Collaborative Research and Development Grants
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2018-01-01 至 2019-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=660837
• 关键词: Ontario; quinoa; industry; optimization

Quinoa is a highly nutritious pseudocereal originating from South America. The large majority of quinoa is grown by subsistence farmers, but interest in quinoa as a high quality nutritious food source is increasing, and in turn the need for fully-developed commercial scale production systems is high. The quinoa market in Ontario and Canada has grown significantly over the past five years, to an expected 19 M lbs. imported into Canada by the end of 2016 (Stats Canada, 2016). Concerns with purity, quality and access to quinoa from South America, in combination with the increasingly high demand in North America for quinoa as a seed and functional food ingredient, has triggered researchers to further pursue the agronomic conditions required to achieve commercial production of this alternative pseudo-cereal crop across Canada.**Katan Kitchens, an Ontario based company, has spent the past six years researching quinoa production in Ontario. Having developed agronomic practices for Canadian production, as well as having developed a unique quinoa variety through natural breeding techniques, the company has now brought their new, highly nutritious quinoa seed to preliminary markets in 2016. In partnerships with University of Guelph researchers, their main focus is to develop the value chain for the quinoa industry in Ontario in order to continue to substantiate the economic model to value chain stakeholders, and produce new, high quality products from the development of this new crop. **To continue development of the quinoa industry in Canada, further research on breeding and agronomic best practices is required in order to provide stable, consistent yields within Ontario, with a focus on a highly nutritious quinoa seed end product. In addition, there is an opportunity to develop saponins, a by product of quinoa processing, as a separate end product. Purity, traceability, monitoring and tracking models are also being substantiated for future use. The success of this project will be a model for future new, high value crops and products in enhancing Canada's economic diversity and high quality foods leadership position.**************

藜麦是一种高营养的假谷物，原产于南美洲。绝大多数藜麦由自给自足的农民种植，但对藜麦作为一种高质量营养食物来源的兴趣正在增加，反过来，对充分开发的商业规模生产系统的需求也很高。在过去的五年中，安大略省和加拿大的藜麦市场显著增长，预计达到1900万磅。到2016年底进口到加拿大（加拿大统计局，2016）。考虑到南美藜麦的纯度、质量和获取途径，再加上北美对藜麦作为种子和功能性食品成分的需求日益增加，研究人员进一步追求在加拿大实现这种替代性伪谷物作物商业化生产所需的农艺条件。**安大略省的Katan Kitchens公司花了六年时间研究安大略省的藜麦生产。该公司为加拿大生产开发了农学实践，并通过自然育种技术开发了独特的藜麦品种，现在已于2016年将其新的高营养藜麦种子推向初步市场。与圭尔夫大学的研究人员合作，他们的主要重点是为安大略省的藜麦产业开发价值链，以便继续证实价值链利益相关者的经济模式，并从这种新作物的开发中生产出新的高质量产品。**为了继续发展加拿大藜麦产业，需要进一步研究育种和最佳农艺学实践，以便在安大略省提供稳定、一致的产量，重点是高营养藜麦种子最终产品。此外，还有机会开发藜麦加工的副产品皂苷作为单独的最终产品。纯度、可追溯性、监测和跟踪模型也正在被证实以供未来使用。该项目的成功将成为未来新的高价值作物和产品的典范，以增强加拿大的经济多样性和高质量食品的领导地位。**************