SAO PAULO, Brazil (Reuters) – Plant Impact, a crop nutrition and pest control company, said it started field trials in Brazil with the world’s largest farm chemical company, Syngenta, to test its technologies targeting calcium and nitrogen in plants.
Plant Impact said the trials would focus on the use of its technologies, CaT, a calcium absorption technology for plants, and PiNT, a nitrogen uptake system that improves plant growth, on soybean, corn, cotton and coffee.
The field trials would initially focus on about 9,500 acres of soybean using Brazil’s key soy producers, said the company, which added it considered the Brazilian agricultural market to be a “major opportunity.”
