Ribena launches hunt for climate resilient blackcurrants

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Company invests over £500,000 to extend partnership focused on the development of climate-resilient blackcurrant varieties

Lucozade Ribena Suntory (LRS) has announced it is to invest over half a million pounds in a five-year project with the James Hutton Institute in Scotland to develop new varieties of climate-resilient blackcurrant...

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