Prince William on December 2 announced the winners of Prince of Wales’s prestigious Earthshot Prize at an awards ceremony in Boston in the US.
- Hyderabad-based ‘Kheyti’, is among the five startups that have been announced as winners of Earthshot Prize.
- Kheyti, founded by Kaushik Kappagantulu, has developed a ‘Greenhouse-in-a-Box’, which helps farmers protect their crops from extreme weather and pests. The model uses 90 per cent less water, grows seven times more food and gives farmers a steady dependable income.
Earthshot Prize
- Five Earthshot Prizes of £1m ($1.2m) are being awarded each year until 2030 in support of environmental innovation projects for the future.
- Nominations for the 2023 prize open up on 5 December. The annual awards were created by Prince William to fund projects that aim to save the planet.
- Each winner will receive £1m ($1.2m) to develop their innovation.
- The prize’s name refers to the “Moonshot” ambition of 1960s America by then-President John F Kennedy, who pledged to get a man on the Moon within a decade.
