Protecting crops from pathogens and diseases are important to the professional agricultural, who knows that any pest problem can ruin a harvest. Also just as important as protecting the field is to do it without generating waste. That is why the effectiveness of plant extracts as a base for agricultural phytobiotics is very interesting.
The botanical substances are for strengthen crops giving them greater resistance to pathogens attacks.
Made from agronomic research, plant extracts are less expensive than other options. They are biodegradable and safer than their synthetic counterparts.
Cymbopogon citratus (hierba poácea), Lippia alba (planta verbenácea), Citrus paradisi (árbol del pomelo), Citrus grandis (pamplemusa o pomelo chino), Ricinus communis (ricino o higuerilla), Allium sativum (ajo)… there are many species of which extracts are used, with more than 200 active ingredients.
¿Cómo trabajan estos extractos vegetales en la planta?
As we always say, nature gives us solutions to its own problems. They give us these natural solutions, in this case for the problems that agricultural crops usually have. In fact, plants synthesize primary chemical compounds, which are directly involved in fundamental processes such as photosynthesis or the assimilation of nutrients. But they also handle secondary elements, which fulfill non-essential but equally important functions in their vital functions. The phytobiotic properties are found in these compounds; are the plant extracts we are talking about.
They stand out from them:
- Terpenes, which cause repellency and prevent oviposition.
- Phenols. That they can be antifeedant and repellent -such as tannins- or toxic to mites and insects -such as coumarins-.
- Alkaloids, like nicotine.
- Flavonoids, such as rotenone, are also repellent.
- Thiophenes, etc.
Plant extracts in MAFA
Vegetable extracts from essential citrus oil (mainly terpenes) and enriched in manganese and zinc. They are in the Citromazinc phytobiotic, a biodegradable product that works by improving the adherence and retention capacity of pulverized broths. As a result, we obtain a better interaction of nutritional molecules with the leaf cuticle.
The vegetable extracts of legumes, which, together with other essential oils of vegetable origin, act as an anti-food repellent. Furthermore, it is fully compatible with auxiliary fauna (nesidiocoris tenuis, nmblyseius swirskii, orious laevigatus). It is the base of Índico, very effective against the attacks of mites and aphids and fully compatible with biological control programs. It is especially effective to solve the problems that usually affect horticultural, fruit and citrus crops, without generating phytotoxicity.
