The trees—called pongamia—aren’t new to Hawaii. But a company called Terviva is the first to farm them, after discovering a way to process the trees’ beans to make them into food.

ALAMEDA, Calif., January 14, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Terviva, Inc., an agricultural innovation company working with farmers to grow and harvest pongamia for food, feed and fuel, today announced a ...

A machine simply shakes the tiny beans from the branches when they are ready to harvest. Terviva, a San Francisco company founded in 2010 by Naveen Sikka, then uses its patented process to remove ...

Ahead of schedule and in partnership with like-minded plant-based protein brand Aloha, California-based Terviva’s much-anticipated, “ultra-sustainable” Ponova oil is debuting in its first ...

TerViva photo Alexander & Baldwin is close to formalizing a partnership with a seed oil producing company on a 250-acre demonstration project to produce biofuels from the pongamia tree on old ...