Plant Impact wins product registration in Brazil

Plant Impact has successfully registered its products in Brazil, which is a large and important new territory for the company.

Crucially, Brazils location in the Southern Hemisphere will give Plant Impact a second development growing season for its crop nutrition and protection products.

The Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture granted national product registrations for Plant Impacts products InCa, PiNT Ca, PiNT K and Scope.

The company described it as a key milestone, highlighting the scale of the country’s agricultural industry.

According to Plant Impact, Brazilian farmers grew around 21 million hectares of soybean, 14 million hectares of corn, 2 million hectares of coffee bean and 1 million hectares of cotton in 2008.

"The company considers the Brazilian agricultural market to be a major opportunity,” Plant Impact said.

Plant Impact is working with major partners in Brazil - including Arysta, Syngenta and the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA).

"The directors believe that there are major unmet needs already identified in plant nutrition and crop protection where Plant Impacts products can assist,” the company said.

"The knowledge generated from the initiatives in Brazil will also contribute to Plant Impacts commercial development of InCa, PiNT Ca, PiNT K and Scope.”

Plant Impact has developed five technologies, with associated patents, and a broad range of high quality products that it believes represent the future of sustainable agriculture and food production.

The company has been expanding it geographic reach and this move into Brazil follows an important European distribution deal, announced yesterday.

Plant Impact agreed a distribution and evaluation deal with a key buyer for European agricultural co-operatives, Cebeco Meststoffen BV.

The deal covers Plant Impact’s crop nutrient products - InCa, PiNT Ca, PiNT K and Alethea K. It gives Cebeco exclusive distribution rights for the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxemburg, as well as non-exclusive evaluation rights for Germany.

InCa is a calcium delivery system which enables plants to absorb and retain calcium in tissues where it is most needed and especially in parts of the plant that would not naturally absorb calcium under normal growth conditions.

PiNT technology takes amine Nitrogen and binds it into a complex which resists leaching and allows plants to access nitrogen in a form they can utilise to build strong healthy growth. The technology is incorporated in the PiNT Calcium and PiNT Potassium products, or PiNT Ca and PiNT K in short.

Scope is based on Plant Impact’s patented Alethea technology, geared to solving the problems of abiotic stress. Scope provides resistance to all forms of abiotic (climatic) stresses such as heat, cold, excess luminescence, high salts, drought and flood.

Balance, featuring Speedo technology, is a natural chemistry which accelerates reproductive growth and leads to earlier plant maturity.

Saxon, also derived from Speedo technology, reduces transient deficiencies during vigorous growth, flower and fruit development – allowing the plant to achieve its maximum potential.