Action in the field of soil and crops
Agriculture has been “modernized” to facilitate work and ensure the yields necessary to feed the population, in particular with the use of heavy machinery, fertilizers, pesticides . With these practices, over the last 50 years, soils have been significantly modified and their “own balance” largely altered. The soil is a living environment with its own and complex ecosystem that these so-called modern techniques disrupt. In the long term, the soil, which is not just a support, can no longer fulfill its role of plant nutrition due to all of these imbalances accumulated year after year.
AGROBIOTOP research and the products derived from it help stimulate the aerobic flora of the soil, in particular microorganisms that are often mistreated, and restore the balance of the ecosystem. The soil quickly regains its ability to exchange with plants , providing them with all the elements necessary for optimum or even improved growth and yield. AGROBIOTOP has also focused its research on sulfur nutrition for crops.
AGROBIOTOP has thus developed a range of inorganic soil amendments based on activated silica and elemental sulfur (also with a fertilizer function (supply of sulfur)).
AGROBIOTOP has also focused its research on the natural active compounds of plants and their associations, thus making it possible to develop a range of products for crops with the aim of protecting plants (insecticide/repellent and fungicide/repellent) and biostimulants (efficiency of use of nutrients, and against various abiotic stresses such as frost and water stress).
This research is part of the context of seeking alternatives and reducing chemical phytosanitary products (plant protection) and synthetic chemical fertilizers (plant nutrition), always with the aim of promoting biological life in the soil that is conducive to plant development, and with a certainly significant effect on the environment.
Marginal action in the field of breeding
Livestock manure and litter are sources of organic matter and nutrients for the soil, a source that affects both the structure of the soil itself and the storage capacity of essential elements. The organic value of these materials depends on the condition in which they are obtained. When the system is not ideal, bad odours, ammonia, hydrogen sulphur, biogenic amines are released, which indicate that the material is “rotting” and cannot be used, and from there, their applications are almost useless.
AGROBIOTOP products help maintain the natural system of material degradation by promoting the activity of aerobic bacteria, in particular by promoting the formation of biofilms. The action of AGROBIOTOP products has the effect of:
A marginal but developing action in the water sector
Excess organic matter loads in pond, well and basin waters cause changes in aquatic ecosystems that can lead to eutrophication of the environment and contamination of the water by
toxins produced in particular by cyanobacteria. Algae develop to the detriment of fish and aerobic micro-organisms .
AGROBIOTOP products are safe for aquatic fauna and the environment . They allow the system to return to balance by stimulating microbial life and increasing the availability of organic matter. The products have the effect of:
In addition, AGROBIOTOP is currently developing in France a concept for disinfecting water (but also livestock buildings, equipment, etc.) based on a neutral anolyte-based product, in collaboration with the company ANAQUA.