Seaweeds extracts and their role in improving crop performance under environmental stress conditions
| junio 29, 2019The increasing use of seaweed extracts and seaweed based bio-stimulants in the fertilizer industry has been remarkable in recent years partly due to the increasing demand for food by our ever-growing world population taking into account that cultivation area is reducing and partly due to unfavorable growing conditions for crops as a result of climate change.
Being faced with these challenges as well as other crop production challenges, we are forced to look for innovative techniques to help us grow more food under unfavorable growing conditions with less cultivation area, seaweed extracts and biostimulants have been instrumental in the realization of this goal.
Seaweed extracts are essentially organic extracts from various species of seaweeds found in the seas, oceans and rivers. However, the most commonly used extracts in the fertilizers industries are those extracted from ascophyllum nodosum found in the northern Atlantic Ocean and ecklonia maxima found in the ocean along the southern Atlantic coast of Africa.
Because of the extremely difficult growing and stress conditions such as extreme cold, unfavorable tides etc. in the locations where these species [ascophyllum nodosum and ecklonia maxima] are found, they have unique properties and components which can be extracted and used as nutritional components, bio-activator and stimulants for boosting crop performance and increasing crop resistance under the unfavorable conditions crops are exposed to today.
Although, there are many seaweed-based fertilizers in the international market from the same sources [ascophyllum nodosum and ecklonia maxima], the key to achieving effective and value-adding results depends on the method used for extracting the components as well as the innovation used for product differentiation to give the product a unique function and know-how.
In the manufacturing of our Seaweed-based product, we apply extraction process and innovation techniques that guarantees the integrity of the cellular contents of the seaweed so that key nutritional components such as phytohormones, stimulants, vitamins, amino acids and mineral elements remain at their best natural states as possible after extraction and development.
Because our goal at Cropper Agra Fertilizers company is to grow together with you, be it as a grower or a distributor, we are committed to sharing valuable knowledge for achieving more value from your efforts. Therefore, we encourage you to stay tuned for our coming blog posts where we will share with you some of the key benefits of the major components in each species and how they react with the plant increase the market value of crops even under unfavorable stress conditions such as cold stress, heat stress, water stress, pest attacks, etc.