Agrobío is moving forward in biological pest control, offering natural solutions for the important challenges of today’s farming: the control of emerging pests, and productions with high health and safety standards.
Over 25 years giving farmers innovative products that are setting milestones in biological control, not only for greenhouse crops, but also in the open air for citrus fruit, fruit trees and red berries. And this is shown in a range of products that stand out due to their genetic selection, new generation diets and the technical advances applied directly to the crops.
This journey, which started with the breeding of bumblebee hives for natural pollination, placing the company in the top 3 worldwide, soon derived into using natural enemies for pest control. Currently, it has 5 strategic centres in Europe, North Africa and Euroasia, and its products reach over 45 countries, all over the world.
The company’s R&D works to make the biocontrol systems sturdier and more resilient. In this context, it promotes early establishment and conservation of auxiliary elements. It has an innovative approach that reduces the dependence on chemical pesticides, encouraging a natural balance in the agricultural ecosystems and contributing to the health, both of the crops and of the environment.
Innovative strategies
ORIcontrol Cold and Plus. Agrobío emphasises the importance of the genetic selection of natural enemies to be able to market more effective predators. Its new strains of Orius laevigatus, Cold and Plus, are differentiated from the standard options, thanks to their characteristic genes. They are pioneers and they offer improved adaptation to the temperature conditions and, also, they kill many more thrips.
POWERmite 3.0. At the same time, Agrobío, which already started a selection of complementary foods a few years ago, has obtained a unique formulation that can feed several species of predators on the plants, based on a mixture of prey called Powermite 3.0. A revolution that will be used to implement the strategies for the three large groups of crop predators: spider mites, bugs and mirid bugs.
