Jan. 29, 2025
BASF participates from January 29 to February 1 in the 37th Agroexpo, in Don Benito (Extremadura), where it will showcase its integrated solutions for two strategic crops in the area: industrial tomatoes and rice.
In this way, attendees at the event will be able to learn firsthand about their new proposals in seeds, crop protection, and even their digital solutions. All of them 'interconnected' with each other with the sole objective of achieving the best profitability for the producer, guaranteeing the viability of production over time.
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Thus, in industrial tomatoes, BASF | Nunhems introduces a new variety, N6556, which has resistance to fusarium 3, a soil fungus that has become a "limiting factor" for crop development, states Juan Manuel Lapie, Sales Specialist.
The N6556 adapts to different growing cycles, from the earliest to the latest, and in all of them offers "high production." This material also stands out for its "good fruit setting at high temperatures," as well as its good field endurance.
With N6556, BASF | Nunhems complements the N6428, new in the past season and which, as Lapie states, "has offered very good results." In this case, it is indicated for early cycles, with plantings until April 25.
Cabrio® WG, against downy mildew and powdery mildew
This fungicide is the company's new solution to combat both diseases in industrial tomato cultivation. "It is a broad-spectrum fungicide," states Pedro Ríos, Technical Crop Manager Vegetables, who details that, "with each application, we will be controlling both downy mildew and powdery mildew."
Cabrio WG is formulated with pyraclostrobin and has shown "high efficacy" in controlling target diseases. It also has a short safety period that makes applications possible until very close to harvest time.
This is their most recent solution in a portfolio in which they already have a wide range of fungicides, acaricides for red spider mite control, insecticides, and herbicides, among others.
Agrigenio™: total integration
Agrigenio is BASF's decision support system (DSS), a digital tool that allows farmers to optimize the resources needed to make their crop profitable. This software is already available for vineyard, table grapes, olive trees, potato, onion, cereals, and industrial tomatoes, a crop in which the company even goes a step further.
"This year we have completed the software with the characterization of BASF | Nunhems seeds," advances Miguel Martínez, Digital Product Manager Spain of Agrigenio, who explains: "The system offers farmers generic recommendations for tomato cultivation and, especially, for BASF | Nunhems varieties, where it gives you 'a customized recipe'."
Among these recommendations, Agrigenio details to the farmer the amount of irrigation water or nutrients (nitrogen, phosphorus, calcium...) that should be applied at each moment, based on different climatic variables analyzed over years by its technological partner Horta.
Thanks to the use of this software, which this year will also be available for the first greenhouse vegetables, "we achieve savings of up to 20% in irrigation water on average," in addition to reducing costs by up to 600 euros per hectare.
In the specific case of industrial tomatoes, the company has managed to integrate Cabrio® WG into Agrigenio, so that "the system allows us to adjust the application timing to maximize the product's efficacy," details Martínez.
Provisia® rice varieties
Provisia Technology is BASF's new system for grass weed control, which combines their Provisia® rice varieties with Verresta, an ACCase inhibitor herbicide, very effective for controlling various grass biotypes.
The company continues in 2025 with the launch of Provisia® rice varieties in partnership with Hisparroz and Copsemar, leading companies in the rice seed segment in Spain. In this way, "we manage to have varieties adapted to the different production areas in Spain and to industry demand, cultivation cycles, temperatures..." explains Gisela Peñas, Crop Manager Field Crops, who advances that, "in two years, we will have a complete portfolio of Provisia® rice varieties developed in and for Spain."
But BASF doesn't want to stop there, rather they go a step further with the aim of guaranteeing the sustainability of this solution over time. The use of herbicides with the same active ingredients or mode of action over years has caused the appearance of resistant weed populations, especially grasses.
To guarantee the durability and efficacy of their Provisia Technology, the company also has resistance management and prevention programs supported by the advice of their own technical team and experienced BASF Distribution in rice.
With all these solutions, BASF shows, once again, its commitment to the entire value chain in favor of profitable and sustainable agriculture.
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