WHO WE ARE
We are a team of passionate, visionary and professional people worried about the present and future of agriculture. In the 20th century the population numbers went from 1 Billion to 7 Billion people worldwide, and in order to feed the growing population, agriculture has evolved rapidly. The development of new breeds of crops, pesticides, and soluble fertilizers has allowed us to drastically increase agricultural production. Understanding the impact in the agroecosystems however has taken us a bit longer than the spread of those technologies, and now we are realizing that chemicals used for the last 60 years, although important for the modern lifestyle that we enjoy today, have been harming the present and future of the agricultural production. Something needs to change...
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What we knew back in the day is that a plant needs different quantities of nutrients to optimize production, and that in order to be available for the plant to take them, they have to be soluble in water. We understood the plant as a machine-like organism that lives statically on the soil and that, using sunlight in a process called photosynthesis, it transforms nutrients absorbed from the soil into food. And that vision is not completely incorrect. We just didn’t take into account that the soil is not just a substrate that supports the plant and nutrients. The soil is a complex ecosystem in which millions of organisms coexist and interact, and the plant is just one of them.
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The plants have been evolving for 400 million years, interacting with many different microorganisms, insects and other plants. The interactions with them have shaped the plants into what they are today. While the organisms evolved, the relationships between them evolved as well. Some into antagonistic relationships, but many others into beneficial symbiosis that are now, in many cases, fundamental for the growth, defense systems and overall production performance of the plants.
WHAT WE DO
Understanding and domesticating 400 Million years of evolution...
For over 10 Thousand years humans have shaped the environment to fit our needs. Through time and selective breeding we have been able to turn wolves into different breeds of dogs, wild birds into chicken, and grasses into cereals that support out food supply. We domesticated plants and animals. However we weren’t aware of the existence of a microscopic world whit which we interact until a few hundred years ago.
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Now we are able to domesticate microorganisms too. We understand plants as the result of 400 Million years of evolutionary process in which they have developed profound symbiotic relationships with microorganisms. We know that understanding and using them allow us to optimize the outcome of the agro industrial production. That is why we find, research and domesticate microorganisms for agricultural use in order to optimize the yield of the crops.
MICROBIOLOGY LAB
Our research, development and production facilities are located in Colombia, South America, which is one of the most biodiverse places on Earth. Although our microbial strains are from all over the world, by being located on the ecuator, Colombia provides the best conditions to produce soil biological products in large scales all year around.
