New biostimulant seems too good to be true

Agriculture and horticulture are currently facing major challenges, including in the field of crop protection. The Cultivation of resilient plants and cultivation systems is central to the Future Vision for Crop Protection 2030.

Crop protection is increasingly becoming a complex system approach, aimed at keeping the plant healthy from the start of cultivation. Partly because of this, biostimulants and additives have received a lot of attention in recent years.

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Holland Fyto is also constantly looking for biostimulants that can help growers to grow crops that are as resilient as possible. "We regularly have discussions with companies that market biostimulants, excipients and other products," says Eltjo Huizenga, general manager at Holland Fyto. "Great results are often shown of their products in low-productive agricultural areas. When applied in high-productive Dutch agriculture and horticulture, the results suddenly turn out to be no longer convincing."

"Two years ago we got into talks with a family business Penergetic from Switzerland," Huizenga continues. "The very special operating principle of their products made us, as down-to-earth Dutch people, raise our eyebrows, but the results with those products in highly productive agricultural regions in Brazil and Canada, for example, aroused our interest," Huizenga concludes.

Operating principle
Tjalling Nutma, technical marketing manager Arable farming at Holland Fyto, explains that this concerns the two products penergetic b and penergetic p. "Both products work on the basis of electromagnetic biostimulation. With these products you apply an electromagnetic charge via a carrier to the soil and the crop. Because micro-organisms and plants are stimulated by this charge in their activity, growth and development, we call the operating principle of electromagnetic biostimulation." Nutma continues his explanation by stating that penergetic b is applied to the soil and increases the activity of useful soil life. This gives the plant more water and nutrition. Applied over the plant, penergetic p allows the plant to absorb, transport and efficiently use nutrients more easily and quickly. Biological processes in the plant such as photosynthesis are also stimulated by the application of penergetic p.

Prove that it works from our own tests
"Within Holland Fyto, the effects of penergetic b and penergetic p have been tested in several crops," says Nutma. "Over the past two years, we have tested both products in about sixteen arable and horticultural crops with surprisingly positive results. We found particularly interesting positive effects in potatoes, strawberries, pears, head cabbage, standard green beans, onions and carrots. that in a visibly faster crop growth or in a more favorable size grading, but almost always with a clear additional yield." Eltjo Huizenga adds: "We were able to confirm the results of Penergetic, which seemed too good to be true, in our own tests in the Netherlands. That is why we are already marketing both products this year." Huizenga states that there is no sales target for 2023. "The focus is on motivating advisors and growers to test this new concept of electromagnetic biostimulation for themselves."

For more information, please visit www.penergetic.nl.