Scientists of the LLP “Kazakh U.Uspanov Research Institute of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry” have developed a new multifunctional, environmentally friendly bio-fertilizer based on microorganisms "BioEcoGum PGPR" for growing crops in open and protected ground.

The tasks of ensuring food security in the country require the modernization of agriculture. A special place in the system of innovations used in agriculture is occupied by environmental innovations.

The developed natural biofertilizer is economical in production and use, as well as environmental safety (non-toxic), plays an important role in the development of agricultural plants, providing them with mineral nutrition, protecting the soil from depletion, restoring their natural fertility, increasing the percentage of germination of crops, increasing productivity, improving consumer properties of agricultural products.

Biofertilizer also inhibits the development of phytopathogenic fungi and viruses on plants in arid conditions, helps to increase the biomass of crops, has an antiviral effect and protects agricultural crops from pests.

This biofertilizer has already been successfully introduced in the Turkestan region on cotton on an area of ​​50 hectares, where productivity increased by 30-40%, and in Almaty oblast on an area of ​​60 hectares, productivity increased by 35-40%, on cereals and corn by 70- 80% The interest on the part of commodity producers in smart biofertilizing is obvious. The main reason for the high dynamics of demand is a good harvest.

Production tests of innovative technologies of biomineral and bioorganic fertilizers in the cultivation of rice and corn on the degraded lands of Almaty, Kyzylorda and Turkestan regions allowed to increase their productivity from 30 to 90%.

The developed products are in great demand among farmers, where sowing and grazing lands are located.

The application of environmental innovations in agriculture makes it possible to develop organic farming, solve the main problems of soil science, get healthy products, and maintain a healthy population of the country.

Zulfiya Tukenova, Deputy General Director for International Cooperation and Innovation, LLP “Kazakh U.Uspanov Research Institute of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry”, corresponding member of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan.