Surfactants in agriculture enhance the effectiveness of liquid fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, or biostimulants. When added to the nutrient solution, surfactants (short for SURFace ACTing AgeNT) lower the surface tension of the solution, reducing the barrier between the liquid and a gas, another liquid, or a solid.
This is important as plants have a natural waxy, protective cuticle that, amongst other things, protects them from pathogens and prevents water loss from the plant. This waxy cuticle can also reduce the effectiveness of foliar products. While some surfactants damage this waxy cuticle to improve nutrient penetration, ICL’s Fertivant takes a different approach.
To date, Fertivant is the only system on the market that is specifically engineered for foliar nutrition. It creates a unique ‘coral’ patterned sticking and spreading system over the leaf, which is non-destructive to plant tissue and improves the spreading of the nutrients across the surface and their penetration into the leaf. With a 30-day half-life (T1/2), Fertivant biodegrades on the leaf surface after use, making it kinder to the plants and to the environment.
Doubling the Nutrient Absorption
Citrus trials tracked the nutrient uptake of MKP foliar applications with and without Fertivant. The researchers used a marked phosphorus isotope 32P to track its progress through the leaf surface. The trial’s results clearly show that double the phosphorus penetrates the leaf cuticle when Fertivant is used.
Long Lasting Penetration
Fertivant’s non-destructive mode of action, combined with its other characteristics, delivers Long Lasting Penetration (LLP) to ensure more of the foliar application’s nutrients are conveyed into the plant where they are needed. By facilitating the movement of the product’s active ingredients into the plant tissue, Fertivant surfactant increases the ingredient’s uptake and efficiency.
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Nutrivant Booster 8-16-39+ME+FV is a fully soluble foliar formulation containing macro and micronutrients, enhanced with Fertivant technology, designed to precisely meet the needs of crops.
Nutrivant Cereals 6-23-35+1MgO+0.1B+ME is a fully soluble foliar formulation containing macro and micronutrients, enhanced with Fertivant technology, designed to precisely meet the needs of cereal crops.
Nutrivant Fruit 12-5-27+8CaO+B+Fe+Mn+Zn+FV is a fully soluble foliar formulation containing an advanced trace element mix, enhanced with Fertivant technology, designed to improve fruit yield and quality.
Nutrivant Plus Grape 0-40-25+2MgO+1.9B+FV is a fully soluble foliar formulation enriched with magnesium and boron, and enhanced with Fertivant technology to improves grape yield and the quality of the wine
Nutrivant Plus Sugar Beet 0-36-24+2MgO+1.9B+1Mn+FV is a fully soluble foliar formulation containing macro and micronutrients, enhanced with Fertivant technology, designed to precisely meet the needs of sugar beet.
Nutrivant Rice 0-46-30+2MgO+0.2B+FV is a fully soluble foliar formulation enriched with magnesium and boron, and enhanced with Fertivant technology to improve the yield and quality of rice crops
Nutrivant Starter 11-36-24+ME is a fully soluble foliar formulation containing macro and micronutrients, enhanced with Fertivant technology, designed to meet the needs of vegetables and fruit trees.
Nutrivant Tomato 6-18-37+2MgO+ME is a fully soluble foliar formulation containing microelements, enhanced with Fertivant technology, designed to increase fruit size and sugar content of tomato crops.
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