Ficosterra America is born: the fusion of technologies using marine resources

In the midst of a pandemic, the Mexican company Algamar, S.A. de C.V. (Kelproducts) and the Spanish company Ficosterra, S.L. join forces to develop new technologies for the benefit of sustainable agriculture

About Algamar

AlgaMar / Kelproducts is a Mexican company, leader in its sector, created in 2009, for the collection, processing, and extraction of the natural components of the most important algae that inhabit the Pacific Ocean (Macrocystis Pyrífera) and make them available to agriculture, aquaculture and human consumption (biomedical and cosmetic).

At AlgaMar, quality and technological innovation encompass every one of the business environments where it operates: from the search for supplies to the final destination of the product.

About Ficosterra

Ficosterra, S.A. is a Spanish marine biotechnology company that was born with the premises of 21st-century agriculture. Ficosterra’s mission is to help farmers improve the profitability and health of their crops with sustainable and environmentally friendly products, in line with what the market and the new consumer demand more and more.

To this end, it has worked for and for sustainable agriculture since its inception, making the active principles of the sea and its benefits available to them without forgetting, at the same time, that profitability is the farmer’s main priority.

Ficosterra America: the fusion of technologies around marine resources

Ficosterra America arises thanks to the consolidation of two innovative business projects that have in common the use of the nutritional and regenerative benefits of algae and to benefit agriculture.

Ficosterra (Spain) and AlgaMar / Kelproducts (Mexico) have decided to join forces to create a new global company that can meet the needs of organic and conventional agriculture, on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.

Both companies have been developing cutting-edge technologies that take advantage of marine resources to bring them to crops and plants.

Also, they share a vision capable of meeting the needs of clients on both continents.

The combination of experiences and innovative biotechnological solutions from both companies aims to facilitate the farmer’s access to new inputs that will lead the agriculture of the 21st century.

The active principles of the sea are, in both cases, the main axis of its lines of research and development.

Ficosterra America offers biotechnological solutions that help transform conventional crops into profitable and efficient crops while respecting their environment.

Ficosterra America: at the service of agriculture in the 21st century

We all already know that agriculture in the 21st century demands answers and solutions to the new problems and needs derived from overexploitation.

The traditional ways of managing a crop are gradually lagging and obsolete. Agricultural production is no longer limited to managing seeds, agrochemicals, & fertilizers.

Agriculture of the 21st century has to face new environmental and social challenges: sustainability, environmental awareness, the profitability of producers, or quality of production.

These are the new demands of a society that the agricultural industry can no longer ignore.

To meet these needs, agriculture, today more than ever, must work and incorporate innovative solutions that respond to this new situation.

Ficosterra América was born with the mission of contributing to the imperative transformation of conventional agriculture, offering new technological solutions based on marine resources.

Ficosterra America will expand the offer of biostimulants and biofertilizers in a growing market

No one doubts that the biostimulant market has a promising future ahead both in the American and European continents.

The reports offered by different market research consultancies (Future Market Insights or Mordor Intelligence) coincide in growth figures unimaginable just a few years ago (see attached graph)

Future Market Insights anticipates that in Europe alone the market for biostimulants will reach close to $5.69 million in 2026.

The South American market will be the fastest-growing globally in the coming years, led by Brazil, with an annual growth rate of 12.7% between 2020 and 2022.

The growing demand and popularity of organic products, the greater environmental awareness, the concern about pollution derived from the use of agrochemicals, and the need to increase productivity to meet the demand of a growing population, are the main reasons that explain this rapid increase.

But so are the new policies that increasingly limit the use of traditional agrochemicals in favor of new inputs that prevent contamination of the atmosphere, soils, aquifers, seas, and oceans.

Ficosterra and Ficosterra America, are two companies whose products meet all these premises without forgetting that profitability is a priority for the farmer.

That is why from its production centers in Burgos (Spain) and Ensenada (Mexico) they will work in parallel to offer a whole new range of products, both liquid and solid, that respond to these two great challenges.

What makes it possible?

There are numerous trials and Success Cases that Ficosterra has been developing in recent years and that shows that it is possible to multiply the productivity of our crops, increase the size of their fruits, or improve the health of the plant without the need for contamination.

The new inputs based on extracts of algae or microorganisms, such as cystium-k, ficosagro, or ficosterra-g make it possible.

On the one hand, it is about working the soil, the main tool that the farmer has, to achieve greater root development and easier and direct access to nutrients. In this way, you will have the opportunity to grow stronger and healthier and multiply your production.

This is the basis of BCB technology that ficosagro, a biostimulant of algae extracts with microorganisms derived from their biological evolution that favors the development and strength of plants, uses enriches the biological potential of the soil.

This is the basis of BCB technology that ficosagro, a biostimulant of algae extracts with microorganisms derived from their biological evolution that favors the development and strength of plants, uses enriches the biological potential of the soil.

This enrichment manages to improve the yield of crops thanks to the acceleration of the decomposition of organic matter.

Another benefit that this biostimulant brings to the plant is the ability to increase its root development, which facilitates greater and better access to nutrients.

Another of the products that are commercialized in Ficosterra and Ficosterra America with excellent results is the biostimulant cystium-k, a pure extract of the Macrocystis Pyrífera alga that, applied foliar, stimulates fruit set and promotes fruit fattening in addition to helping the plant to better cope with situations of environmental stress.

Finally, we leave you several links to videos with testimonies from farmers who have already tested the benefits of algae in their crops.