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BASF expands biological inoculants production for agricultural markets
BASF has announced the expansion of its manufacturing facilities in Saskatoon for biological inoculants production.
August 24, 2017 By Top Crop Manager
“The expansion is our response to the increasing demand for our biological inoculant solutions worldwide,” said Julia Harnal, Marketing Director, BASF Crop Protection Canada. “With these investments, our latest innovation, Nodulator Duo, will soon make its way from our facilities in Saskatoon to growers in Canada, who seek better plant nutrition for their crops.”
Nodulator Duo is a solid core granular inoculant for peas and lentils that contain the beneficial bacteria rhizobia as well as a Bacillus subtilis that creates a biofilm to protect the roots. The rhizobia can fix nitrogen onto crops as a plant nutrition means. Every one kilogram of Nodulator contains at least 80 billion rhizobia.
In addition to the Saskatoon site, BASF recently invested more than $828 million in its eight other North American agricultural products production sites and facilities that support its agricultural business. Such developments are critical to sustaining the company’s market leadership position in segments like high-quality seed treatments.