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As of this winter cereal season, Syngenta will include in its seed treatment products portfolio a biofungicide developed by Rizobacter and the National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA).

Buenos Aires, March 18th. It’s probably that this is not a well-known datum, but 21% of the global inoculants market is held by an Argentine company, Rizobacter.

The company was founded in 1977 in Pergamino City, the heart of the Pampas, by a small group of entrepreneurs. One of them is Ricardo Yapur, current vice-president after Bioceres Group acquired 50.01% of the shares in 2016.

Liebig’s Law of the Minimum states that growth is not controlled by the total amount of resources available, but by the scarcest resource. Although it has many detractors, today it is more valid than ever.

Rizobacter is one of the three biggest inoculant companies in the world. Today it is the top exporter of inoculants in Argentina and has 21% of the inoculants market worldwide, with an important growth tendency due to its decentralized offices. It has nine subsidiaries: France, Bolivia, India, Brazil, the USA, Paraguay, Colombia, Uruguay and South Africa, and through them it reaches presence in more than 35 countries.

Even though the harvest progresses pleasantly, with average results above the mean, some reports received by our Technical Service show very dissimilar yields, even when plots are divided by a wire fence. This is because the productivity gaps prevail even when water does not seem to be a limiting factor.

Although the land of whisky has historically not been used to produce soybean because of the weather conditions, there is always room for innovation. This is the case of a group of researchers from the James Hutton Institute that have been working intensively with legumes in Europe, trying to increase its production and consumption.