Ficosterra and the ULE will improve the health and profitability of crops

A recently signed agreement between Ficosterra and the University of León will allow research into innovative and ecological solutions with the use of biofertilizers

Today we want to share how public-private collaboration has taken another step to help improve the competitiveness of our business fabric.

The University of León and the company Ficosterra have signed a collaboration framework agreement to carry out joint projects and activities in research and development in the field of engineering, biotechnology, and the circular economy, which will take advantage of the infrastructures, material, and human resources of the former and the biotechnological solutions of the latter, to improve the profitability and health of the crops with innovative and ecological solutions.

Rector Juan Francisco García Marín signed the agreement on behalf of the ULE. At the same time, Ficosterra was represented by its director Luis Lombana Larrea, who was accompanied by the company’s Director of Institutional Relations and Communication, Arancha de la Mata Llord, and the ULE Professors Fernando González Andrés, Carmen Morán and Antonio Morán Palao, from the Research Group in Chemical, Environmental and Bioprocess Engineering (IQUIMAB) of the ULE.

El investigador Fernando González ha aprovechado el momento para poner en valor los estudios en los que están trabajando sobre la mejora de la asimilación de nutrientes por parte de los cultivos, y ha explicado que  “cuando se aplica un fertilizante, los cultivos aprovechan en el mejor de los casos un 60% o 70%”. Con la investigación que desarrolla IQUIMAB, “no se trata de sustituir los fertilizantes con los bioestimulantes, sino de incrementar su eficiencia, reduciendo su aplicación y coste y contaminar menos”.

The researcher Fernando González has taken advantage of the moment to value the studies they are working on improving the assimilation of nutrients by crops, and has explained that “when a fertilizer is applied, the crops are positively affected 60-70% of the time”. With the research carried out by IQUIMAB, “it is not about replacing fertilizers with biostimulants, but about increasing their efficiency, reducing their application and cost and polluting less”.

Luis Lombana has highlighted that “with the use of our technologies the farmer wins because he achieves more efficient crops; the environment wins because less pollution is generated in the oceans and the atmosphere; and the consumer also wins, because they end up with a healthier diet”.

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