Fargreen, a Fort Collins-based startup that aims to improve the lives of rural Vietnamese farmers by teaching them to recycle waste rice straw for fertilizer to grow and sell gourmet mushrooms, won $5,000 in the Walmart Better Living Business Plan Challenge on April 10.
Representing Colorado State University, CSU students and company founders Trang Tran and Tanmay Telang took third-place prize at the competition held in Bentonville, Ark.