A Johannesburg-based biotechnology company, which specialises in the use of micro-organisms, hopes to soon have a new product on the market, which could considerably reduce maize farmers’ use of nitrogen fertiliser. | City_Press
A Johannesburg-based biotechnology company, which specialises in the use of micro-organisms, hopes to soon have a new product on the market, which could considerably reduce maize farmers’ use of nitrogen fertiliser. It could also save the farmers a lot of money, while helping them produce the same or bigger yields.
Moreover, it’s a natural solution. The company is now awaiting approval from the department of agriculture, land reform and rural development for the technology to be commercially marketed. It is also in the process of patenting its work. The results of laboratory and pot tests, in which maize was planted in soils with traditional chemical nitrogen fertiliser, with Custom Chemistry’s technology and with no fertiliser added, correspond with the mathematical, scientific result.
Jan Potgieter, of Rushof farm in the Viljoenskroon district in North West, planted 50ha of maize using the new technology. He says he will do this for three years to see how it works.For the test project, Potgieter used the product in soluble powder form so that, during the planting process, he can put both the product and the seed into the soil, instead of the chemical nitrogen fertiliser that he normally uses.
He does say, however, that if Custom Chemistry’s product did not work, he would have seen a difference between this 50ha of maize and other crops on his farm where he used the conventional fertilisers.
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