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Aquagrain

Aquagrain™ is a unique, organic based soil improver which can absorb up to 30 times its mass in water providing food and drink for plants. Aquagrain incorporates organic waste from the food industry into a biodegradable, carbon chain polymer.

Its organic content, with enhanced micronutrients, not only supplies crops with valuable nutrients, cutting the requirement for inorganic fertilisers, it also significantly stimulates microbial activity in the soil and is ideal for regenerative farming practices.  Aquagrain biodegrades over 12 months to leave just water, CO₂ and organic matter in soil.

Controlled environment trials have shown Aquagrain can cut irrigation requirements by up to 50%, reduce leachate by 60%, proven plants survive up to 16 days longer without irrigation if planted with Aquagrain and can increase crop yield by as much as 3 times, but those results needed verification in commercial growing scenarios.

Instead of burning or landfilling organic food industry waste we convert it into Aquagrain, a cleantech soil improver that absorbs water.

• Aquagrain provides plants with food and water, restores the natural carbon cycle, supporting sustainable, regenerative farming.
• Aquagrain is low cost and simple to use.
• Aquagrain delivered 27.5% and 40% higher crop yields in UK and Middle Eastern rainfed cereal commercial demonstrations in 2021.
• Aquagrain biodegrades over 12 months to leave just water, CO₂ and organic matter in soil

Aquagrain could have a significant global impact on food production and emissions reduction through increased agricultural productivity and waste reduction, delivering a number of UN SDGs either directly, or indirectly.

For more information visit aquagrain.co.uk or telephone: 01473 231283.

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As a Micro R & D company every penny spent is debated; when we consider what Agri-Tech East membership has allowed us to achieve within 12 months – in terms of industry knowledge, relationship development, product promotion and industry inclusion – the few pennies it will cost to renew membership this year will not be debated at all.

We have developed an organic soil improving hydrogel product which is a spin off from a University study designed for a wholly different objective. Membership of Agri-Tech East has been an extremely valuable facility in our drive to commercialise a product in a market of which we had little previous knowledge.

Attending Agri-Tech East events has allowed us to rapidly develop our understanding of the Agri-Tech sector, meet key individuals and companies in the sector and develop important relations that are assisting our product development.

From our experience most successful operations are driven by focused, dynamic individuals. Belinda Clarke’s leadership of Agri-Tech East reinforces that opinion. Belinda’s enthusiasm permeates every Agri-Tech East activity and her pro-active approach – firstly in identifying the positive impact our product could have to agriculture, and then promoting us within the sector – has accelerated our development profile within the field. Through Belinda we feel that we have been accepted as genuine members of the sector, something we could not have achieved in such a short timescale on our own.

Paul Smith, Head of Development, Biomation Ltd

Aquagrain – The first commercially viable water absorbing soil improver?

Despite the variable global weather Biomation’s Aquagrain has turned in some impressive results in its 2021 Covid restricted commercial demonstration programme. Covid and the withdrawal of DfID funding saw Aquagrain trials with the South African Western Cape Province Agricultural Research Department and the Nigerian Centre for Dryland Agriculture cancelled but rainfed trials with Winter Wheat in the Middle East, Winter and Spring Barley in Suffolk as well as a “Bumble-Bird” crop trial to improve biodiversity on another Suffolk farm.

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