New gels with NPK to prevent nutrient wastage

Vellsam is ahead of the new national and European scenario that sets a regulatory roadmap and timetables for minimizing inorganic nutrition. The new range of gels with NPK, baptized by the Almeria-based company Vellsam as Plant Power, responds to the needs of the farmer to produce more with less.

Vellsam is ahead of the new national and European scenario that sets a regulatory roadmap and timetables for minimizing inorganic nutrition. The new range of gels with NPK, baptized by the Almeria-based company Vellsam as Plant Power, responds to the needs of the farmer to produce more with less.

Weight of a bell pepper fruit on a farm where Plant Power has been used.

Within the Environmental Guidelines, the national strategy, programs and operational funds of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food advocate a reduction of fertilizer units in the soil. The Ministry’s focus is on reducing the use of inorganic fertilizers, both for environmental reasons, such as soil contamination, and for other considerations, such as production costs.

This is where Plant Power is configured as a new tool for the grower. In horticultural crops to be applied via root and foliar application in trees.

“In several trials, we have succeeded in lowering N by 50%, P by about 40% and K by about 35%, all without adding chlorides to the soil (they form salts!). Plant Power technology is based on reducing the supply of inorganic NPKs, but at the same time producing 15-20% more, thanks to its specific formulation that retains nutrients and supplies them optimally to the crop”, says Fernando Castilla, development director of Vellsam.

These gels with NPK that make up Plant Power minimize the possible waste of nutrients required by the plant, increasing – in crops such as zucchini – yields by up to 40%.