Biogard® receives the first Interpoma Technology Award

Biogard®, CBC Division for biological control, announced that during the 11th Interpoma, the apple industry’s international trade fair held in Bolzano from 15th to 17th November, received the first Interpoma Technology Award in the FIELD category (innovations in production and crop protection), with “Mister Pro + Isomate® CM Mister 1.0” (https://youtu.be/L66nqloBil0).

The award recognizes innovative technologies and machines exhibited at the trade fair and is organized by Fiera Bolzano with the Faculty of Science and Technology at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano and the Italian Society of Fruit, Vegetable and Flower Growers (SOI). It featured 25 entrants from eight different countries: Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Great Britain and Spain. (https://youtu.be/ab-6Ha-8fns)

During the award ceremony, which took place on Thursday 15th November  at the Südtirol Lounge and attended by the jury, the board of management of Fiera Bolzano and representatives from the international trade press, the reasons for Biogard success were read: “By taking an existing technology of pest control using mating disruption and adding a combination of pest phenology, real-time environmental monitoring and microcomputing control hardware and software, CBC Europe have developed a simple technology that supports a sophisticated, advanced pest control system. This environmentally responsive technology will overcome the multiple shortcomings of current mating disruption technologies”.