"Bio+" Strategy Leads to Innovation: SEGA Creates High Yield and High-Quality Solutions for Root Tuber Crops

Since Zhejiang Sega Science and Technology Co., Ltd. implemented the "Bio+" strategy, it has achieved remarkable results in tuber crop cultivation. 

The company has developed a series of innovative products and comprehensive solutions for the unique needs of tuber crops, which apply to field crops such as corn, rice, and wheat, and it provides overall prevention and control solutions for specific crops.

Characteristics and challenges of tuber crops

Tuber crops include potatoes, yams, ginger, onions, garlic, groundnuts, sweet potatoes, and taro, as well as panax ginseng and ginseng as Chinese herbal medicine. These crops are characterized by their economic value, mainly concentrated in the underground rhizome, tuber or bulb part. However, as they grow underground, these crops are susceptible to infestation by harmful bacteria in the soil, resulting in poor growth or even root rot and death. Traditional control methods, such as soil sterilization or drip irrigation with chemical fungicides, are effective but often adversely affect soil and crop quality.

SEGA's "Bio+" Strategy

To overcome these challenges, SEGA has launched a series of innovative products based on the "Bio+" strategy, designed to address the root problems of tuber crop cultivation while improving yield and quality.

Total solution for tuber crop

1. Early planting control: "Yi bao" (Arbuscular mycorrhiza)

Yi bao is symbiotic bacteria with the following advantages:

● It forms a lasting symbiotic relationship with crops and has strong vitality

● Promotes root growth, enhances the ability of crops to absorb water and fertilizer

● Plays a good defense against harmful bacteria

● Secondary metabolites have fungicidal and growth-promoting effects

● Improves the soil aggregate structure

When planting tuber crops, hole or furrow application of Yibao not only prevents soil-borne diseases but also promotes crop growth, and improves water and fertilizer absorption. It has a good preventive ffect on the de-fertilization of crops in the middle and late stages.

2. Quality improvement: Abazhuang (Metabolites of the Trichoderma & Bacillus)

Abazhuang is the first fermented metabolite in China with multiple benefits:

● Sterilizing and growth promoting effects

● Promotes the conversion of crop sugars and proteins

● Improves crop flavor

● Improves crop stress resistance

3. Tuber Expansion and Quality Improvement

SEGA offers three products for tuber enlargement and quality improvement.

a) A Pang (Choline chloride 19.9% + S-abscisic acid 0.1% SL)

● Increases chlorophyll content and photosynthetic efficiency

● Reduces crop respiration and energy consumption

● Promotes rapid transfer of nutrients to the roots to facilitate stem enlargement

b) Prohexadione calcium 15% SC

● Controls nutrient growth of above-ground parts and promotes nutrient transfer to roots

● Increases chlorophyll content and nutrient accumulation.

● Promotes stem enlargement, and improves yield and quality.

c) Propiconazol 40% EW

● Inhibits gibberellic acid synthesis, breaks the apical dominance, and achieves mild control of vigor.

● It also has a fungicidal effect, realizing the double effect of controlling and preventing the disease.

4. Nematode control: Fosthiazate 20% + Abamectin 2% EW

This product is used in planting, has a robust, lasting period, and can effectively control the harm of nematodes.

Future expectations

SEGA will continue to deepen the crop segment market and launch innovative products. The company is committed to improving the solution for tuber crops and significantly contributing to agricultural development. Through the "Bio+" strategy, utilizing the company's years of accumulated leading technology in the field of bio-extraction, fermentation and propagation, as well as the varieties of biostimulants, SEGA is providing farmers with more environmentally friendly and efficient planting solutions, which are expected to significantly improve the yield and quality of various crops and create more economic value for farmers.

Epilogue

Through its "Bio+" strategy, SEGA has successfully developed innovative products and comprehensive solutions for tuber crops. From disease prevention and control at the early stage of planting to expansion and quality enhancement at the mid-to-late stage to quality improvement and nematode control, SEGA provides a full range of scientific and technological support for the entire growth cycle of tuber crops. This not only reflects the company's innovation ability in the field of agricultural science and technology but also makes an essential contribution to the realization of sustainable development of agriculture and improves the profitability of farmers.

This article was originally published in AgroPages magazine 2024 Biologicals Special.