New ‘Rovensa Next’ presented at BAW 2023

The new Rovensa Next brand of biosolutions for agriculture was presented to the market during the BioAg World Congress (BAW 2023) at an event in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), which received special coverage from AgroPages.

The event brought together several of the prominent companies in the bio-input industry, with Rovensa Next presenting its concept of ″shaping a sustainable future for agriculture.″

This is the company's first appearance in Brazil, and the new brand showed three pioneering projects at its conference.

Rovensa Next sees Brazil as a market that is ″growing significantly when it comes to the use of biological inputs for agriculture″.

Marlon Assunção

Marlon Assunção, Manager of Agricultural Research in Brazil, presented the team's project to demonstrate safe and effective ways for farmers to manage pests and diseases.

″We are producing enough food to feed the world. But more than that, we need to produce safe, waste-free food and protect the environment, including beneficial insects and micro-organisms,″ he said.

The team studied the combination of Rovensa Next's PREV-AM product with three beneficial microorganisms used in Integrated Pest Management (IPM).

The results showed that, when combined with other chemical products, these microorganisms were not able to develop, but when combined with PREV-AM, they did.

Assunção pointed out that this finding is not just in Brazil but in all countries working with a zero waste limit.

With the use of PREV-AM, he says, there is no more residue on the crops, as it has a natural base (orange peel oil) and, above all, can preserve natural enemies and bees, resulting in a safe solution, natural and effective for pest management.

Johanna Pérez

Dr. Johanna Pérez, Global R&D Product Design Manager, shared more about the BIOTOOL project, which was developed by Tradecorp International and the Italian research center Landlab, supported by the Eurostars program, to respond to a growing global challenge: water.

The project aims to examine the effect of seaweed-based biostimulants on plants and improve crop productivity through efficient water management.

To achieve these goals, the research teams developed the BIOTOOL platform to study water use efficiency (WUE) under experimental conditions and for real-time assessment of plant health under conditions below the optimal water application level.

Studies have shown that plants can still achieve the same production level with about a 25 to 40% reduction in water combined with the use of biostimulants.

Rafael Nunes

Rafael Nunes, Industrial Director in Brazil, presented a study carried out by our team in the country using Phos'UP in soybean crops, which showed a productivity increase of approximately 9%.

According to Nunes, the study arose from the need to respond to geopolitical issues affecting the price and availability of phosphate fertilizers in Brazil.

In Brazil, in particular, there is an excessive amount of P (22.8 million tons) contained in the soil in inaccessible chemical forms, so producers need phosphate-based fertilizers to ensure the success of their crops.

Phos'UP contains an active ingredient, Pseudomonas fluorescens, widely known as a phosphate solubilizer that helps plants access the insoluble forms of phosphate already contained in the soil.

Using Phos'UP in field tests with soybean crops, the team found that when combined with strains of diazotrophic bacteria that are widely used in Brazilian soybean crops, there was a significant synergistic effect that increased nutrient use efficiency in the plants and demonstrated that this is a viable, sustainable and effective alternative to fertilizers imported into Brazil.

(Editing by Leonardo Gottems, reporter for AgroPages)