This article will interest anyone who wants to boost yield and avoid extra costs.
In it, we’ll tell you how we arrived at choosing the modern, innovative Bactofil biofertilizer, and what results it showed in field trials.
“ASTRA” continues its successful track record of technology transfer, introducing Ukrainian farmers to the latest technologies in crop production and soil cultivation.
Two years ago, a well-known Ukrainian agroholding approached our company with a problem: poor decomposition of corn and sunflower residue. As we found out, this was caused by the use of intensive crop-production technology, which had lowered the soil’s biological activity. On top of that, we observed soil acidification, pathogen development, soil erosion, and, most importantly, declining yield figures. As a result, the agroholding’s crop-production costs were rising, and profitability figures were falling.
After studying international experience, we found an effective solution from the Hungarian company Agro.bio Hungary KFT – Bactofil-brand preparations. Before launching sales, we ran trials on Ukrainian land through 2019-2020.
And here are the results we got:
– an 8-30% yield increase in crop production (compared with the control);
– improved soil buffering capacity and moisture-retention ability (a 55% increase in moisture content at 0-30 cm depth and 82% at 0-50 cm depth);
– restored soil fertility and physical properties (a 38-75% reduction in soil physical resistance by the third year of use);
– atmospheric nitrogen fixation (40-65 kg active substance);
– converting phosphorus into a water-soluble form (35 kg active substance);
– binding free potassium ions (35 kg active substance);
– generating biologically active substances – amino acids, vitamins, phytohormones, and so on.
This year we received state registration for the Bactofil-brand preparations and can now sell this new product across all of Ukraine.
We’ll definitely keep writing about trials and results from using these innovative fertilizers, so follow our news.
