AgroPages-Bayer CropScience and Coopermota deal for industrial seed treatment‏ in Brazil-Agricultural news

An industrial seed treatment plant, partnered between Bayer CropScience and Coopermota inaugurated in early of this August. The new plant is located in the headquarters of the cooperative union in São Paulo in Brazil. According to the partnership, Bayer CropScience would offer a high-tech equipment (CBT 200 model) to the plant, as well as monitoring of the seed treatment process, training the operators and providing specialized technical assistance.

Sandro Amadeu, commercial superintendent at Coopermota, highlighted that this partnership is of utmost importance to take the farmer with security technology. "The partnership between two companies has enabled to implement the action which optimize and improve the quality from the planting stage," he said.

For the president of Coopermota, Edson Valmir Fadel, the technology brought more resources to farmers, enabling them to cultivate with a more adequate seed treatment. "The ultimate goal of the seed treatment is to protect them, keeping the good characteristics that it has, avoiding plagues and diseases and even adding bio stimulants to speed up its development. Through the technology, we are able to obtain more benefits in an extremely homogeneous way between grains and safety to humans and the environment".

"New times require new solutions," this is one of the slogans of SeedGrowth business of Bayer CropScience, which has the goal of enabling the producer the most modern technology to protect seeds. "We are an innovation company and we offer differentiated high quality products and services through the partnership with CooperMota is an excellent way to meet the farmers needs towards the technological advances," said Siegfrid Baumann, manager of SeedGrowth at Bayer.

The partnership of Coopermota with Bayer CropScience brought to the Cândido Mota region the most modern technologies. Based on the concept of SeedGrowth that involves products, machines, services and coatings, the cooperative and the company seek, together, to improve the quality, precision and safety of seed treatment which brought convenience for the producer.