Year by year, our growers face more challenges to produce the same or more yield with the equal amount of nutrition. The crisis of raw materials in 2020, the availability of fertilizers in some moments, limitations of Phosphorus application or availability in soil, are just some of the challenges seen in the last years.
Nutrient use efficiency (NUE) is a critical aspect of modern agriculture, focusing on optimizing the use of nutrients to enhance crop productivity while minimizing environmental impact. Efficient nutrient management as well as quality Biostimulants are essential for sustainable farming practices, ensuring that crops receive the right amount of nutrients at the right time, as well as improving the efficacy of the amount of nutrients applied.
Most important Factors that affect the NUE can be summarized in 2 groups:
- Soil Challenges:
Soil properties, such as texture, structure, and organic matter content, affect nutrient availability and uptake by plants. More and more, the soils tend to “lock” / “block” the nutrients or loose the capacity to retain the nutrients, and most of the soil applied nutrients tend to be leached and lost.
Rovensa Next Biostimulation 360 strategy brings solutions that will increase the root capability of our crops, maximising the Nutrient Use Efficiency:
High quality humic acids product based
- A historic product tested and used all across the world, based on high quality Humic Acids like Humifirst, Humifirst WG and Turbo Root WG will increase the nutrient uptake of the Macroelements in all the crops, in all soils. Besides proven results in increasing the availability of the nutrients in the soil, Humifirst will boost the root development of our crops, increasing the capacity of absorption of the nutrients and water, thus, reducing the lixiviation risk and blockage of the nutrients.
We know it works: *graph showing the percentage increase in All Nutrient absorption vs control (100%) in the crops of Maize and Potato
2. Plants Challenges:
Some crops in certain vegetative stages have a high requirement of a certain nutrient, but are not able to absorb all the quantity they need in a specific moment of the development. Apple crops, at the end of the fruit growth will need to absorb and mobilise Calcium in a very large quantity to be able to develop the fruit with a good quality and shelf life. Another example is oilseed Rape / colza, a crop that needs a very high quantity of Boron during vegetative development up to flowering in order to create an optimum flowering organ that can be converted in seeds pods able to provide a high oil yield.
As the need for a nutrient is higher than the plant capability to absorb it in that moment, the volume of the nutrient is not a limiting factor, but the plant capacity of absorption.
Rovensa Next Biostimulation 360 strategy brings foliar solutions that will boost the translocation of all the essential nutrients from the plant to the fruit!
Our biostimulants based on high concentrations of free amino acids like Delfan Plus V, boost the translocation of all the essential nutrients trough the plant.
Phylgreen range, our biostimulants based on 100% pure cold extract of Ascophyllum nodosum, stimulate the metabolism and increase the capability of absorption of the nutrients.
We know it works
2 trials in apple in Poland (left) and France (right) showing the Calcium Use efficiency in 2 varieties (left) and reduction of Calcium disorder Bitter Pit (right)
Apple is another case, where the need of preharvest Calcium nutrition outweighs the plant capacity to absorb and translocate the nutrient. Thankfully, Biostimulation 360 brings Delfan Plus V, our Amino Acids capacity to increase the absorption and translocation of Calcium, reducing the Calcium nutritional disorder called Bitter pit as it can be seen in the trial below.
- Addition of Phylgreen 200 Biostimulant increases the use of Boron and Yield in OSR, Lithuania
Conclusion
Nutrient use efficiency is a cornerstone of sustainable agriculture, balancing the need for high crop productivity with environmental stewardship. By understanding the factors affecting NUE and implementing effective strategies based on Biostimulation 360, farmers can achieve optimal nutrient management, ensuring a profitable and sustainable farming future. Embracing innovative practices and technologies will be key to enhancing nutrient use efficiency and meeting the challenges of modern agriculture and Rovensa Next has developed during the years a wide range of solutions, especially for the emerging challenges in modern agriculture, and Biostimulation 360 is a cumulation of all the BioSolutions in a sustainable program to help produce more with less.
