AGT Foods CEO Murad Al-Katib on Value-Added Food, Plus Record Food Bank Use and Quebec’s Maple Syrup Shock
Murad built AGT on one bet: that Prairie farmers would replace summer fallow with lentils, chickpeas, peas and beans. The company now runs 41 manufacturing facilities on five continents, with Prem Watsa’s Fairfax Financial as its partner. He makes the case for adding value to even a fraction of Canada’s harvest, for fixing east-west trade infrastructure from Churchill to the Atlantic Gateway, and for a real industrial strategy.
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