Actium, a biostimulant from the Agrotecnología Group, acts as a powerful colour enhancer, also for use with stone fruit
The company from Alicante, Agrotecnología, is devoted to research, development, manufacturing and marketing of products for the protection and nourishment of environmentally-friendly agricultural crops. Amongst these products Actium stands out, a lipo-complex biostimulant that is the source of the essential acids and vitamins that activate the colouring of the crops.
Actium has the property of neutralising the negative radicals at a the cellular level, reducing the damage produced by them on the fruit, improving the vegetative condition of the plant, preventing the denaturation of proteins and enzymes, regulating the level of solutes and maintaining optimum photosynthetic and respiratory level.
The main effects produced by Actium are that it standardises and improves the colour of the fruit and also increasing its size and turgidity.
Many trials have been carried out on stone fruit in areas of Alicante, Lerida and Murcia, specifically on flat peaches, nectarines and cherries. The results show an advance of 15 days in the harvesting for 35% of the entire harvest. Actium advances and concentrates the harvest, at the same time as it improves the colour. In this way, “in the first pass of the harvest, 35% more is collected than in the untreated control group , having reached the optimum colour for harvesting,” Amaya Jordá, marketing manager for the company emphasises.
The dose recommended for fruit trees is 3 treatments of 600 grams per 1,000 litres of water every 10-12 days. The first treatment must be carried out just before the fruit starts to change colour.
