Seipasa, Universitat Politècnica de València Collaborate on New Bioherbicide
Seipasa, the Spanish company specialized in the development and formulation of biopesticides, biostimulants and fertilizers for agriculture and the Technical University of Valencia (UPV), through the Mediterranean Agroforestry Institute (IAM), are working on the development of a new bioherbicide.
The aim of this project is to develop an effective, sustainable alternative to synthetic herbicides. Its use would help reduce the environmental impact that chemical herbicides have and prevent resistances from occurring due to the overuse of current solutions.
According to Mercedes Verdeguer, a researcher at the IAM, the project has arisen from the need to provide farmers with new tools. “For a long time now, agriculture has been calling for new, more environment-friendly weed control solutions,” she said. “In 2009 there was a change in European legislation aimed at the sustainable use of phytosanitary products and promoting integrated pest management strategies. Since then, active substances have been constantly disappearing, so that it has become more necessary than ever to develop new tools for integrated management.”
Marta Muñoz, Seipasa’s product specialist and a member of the IAM team, has stressed the importance of developing new alternatives in the light of the current situation, in which “resistances are causing increasingly difficult problems and farms have fewer and fewer active substances available because of the tightening of EU regulations.”
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