Grace Breeding boosts grain yield by18% while cutting CO2 emissions
Source: https://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/tech-and-start-ups/article-717486
Author: Ariel Shapira
Agrotech company Grace Breeding, which develops biological-based products, showed its NFT product improves grain yield by 18% and biomass by 16%. The use of NFT empowers farmers to significantly diminish their dependence on synthetic fertilizer, reducing environmental damage while still boosting yields. Environmentally friendly alternatives to urea, such as Grace Breeding’s NFT, a plant-based formula made using extracts of different plants and a mixture of rhizobium bacteria, have been found to improve the absorption of nutrients from the soil and increase the efficiency of nitrogenous feeding. By switching from urea to NFT, growing costs and environmental damage caused by the use of synthetic fertilizers are reduced. Grace Breeding’s NFT product was tested in comparison to a field plot that received a full commercial dose of synthetic fertilizer urea on the day of sowing. All treatments were given using the farmer-in-furrow application during sowing under the farmer commercial agronomical methodologies.