Ingredient manufacturer and supplier Sabinsa’s -year reforestation project for Indian Kino, or Pterocarpus marsupium, won the NutraIngredients-USA Editor’s Award for Industry Initiative of the Year.
The initiative, which was announced in May this year, will ensure that 250 acres in the Seoni and Balaghat regions in Madhya Pradesh state, India, will be planted with more than 166,600 Indian kino trees, which is on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species.
“We wanted to get a product out that was quite indigenous to India,” said Shaheen Majeed, president of Sabinsa Worldwide. He accepted the award during the Inaugural NutraIngredients-USA reception in Chicago last week.
