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The BioDeposit Group, after 8 years of technical reseach and engineering development have created a unique range of products in the field of organic fertilizers, soil conditioners and yield enhancers. The fact is the world becoming increasingly concerned about food shortages, due to such factors as population explosion and the effects of climate change and weather patterns, he need for maximising the potential of the the land has never been greater.
To date the agricultural world is generally faced with a choice of chemically produced fertilizers, increasing rejected by the consumer, or manure based organic varieties. There is an alternative that combines the effectiveness of the former, with the eco soundness of the second. At BioDeposit we have taken what mother nature has given us in naturally forming lake deposits and via our patented technology created a range of sapropel based products that puts back in what mankind strips out, or creates in in soil types that have low natural concentrations. We create humus - the life of soil
The benificail properties of peat and sapropel have been known in Europe for many years, as natural resources successfully used in agriculture as fertilizing conditioners for soil structure and fertility improvement. Peat has been widely spread all over the world owing to its simple mining and processing industrialization resulting in millions tons being used annually. Meanwhile sapropel despite its advantages over peat due to its superios agrochemical characteristics, has not been widely because of the range of difficulties connected with its mining and processing. So, what is sapropel and what are its advantages over the other fertilizers?
What is sapropel?
Sapropels are bottom sediments of fresh water lakes (lake silt) Sapropel from Greek sapros and pelos - meaning putrid and silt, mud Term sapropel was introduced in 1901 by German scientist Robert Lauterborn Then the term sapropel has been developed in scientific literature by Potoneu For the first time in 1862 to describe lake sediments Swedish scientist H. fon Post had used two terms gittia and dju Sapropel is renewable natural organic stocks accumulated at the speed of 1 mm per year. Sapropel is referred to caustobioliths
Caustobioliths
Caustobioliths are combustible natural resources (from Greek caustos combustible, bios life, litos stone). It is believed that all combustible natural resources solid, liquid and gaseous were formed from remains of vegitative or animal origin.
Sapropel
Organic substance Group of substances: - bitumen/ pitch - carbonhydrates - Humic and others BAS: - vitamins - amino acids - antibiotics - Enzymes (ferments) and others.
Mineral substance Macroelements: -Silicon (Si) -Calcium (Ca) -Aluminum (Al) - Ferrum (Fe) and others Microelements: - Co, Mn, Cu, B, Zn,
I, Br, Mo, V, Cr, Be, Ni, Ag, Sn, Pb, As, Ba, Sr, Ti
IX. Organic fertilizers applied to the soil, contribute to the accelerated formation of humus in the soil. Unlike manure, peat and compost, sapropel is 15-20 times more effective than any organic fertilizer. Specific microorganisms and enzymes, which are contained in the sapropel, are able to revive "dead ground", that is to ensure all its functions and to give it highly fertile properties by forming humus. X. Sapropel, applied to the soil, has a positive environmental impact on soil. Organic fertilizers which are not processed (manure, chemicals) do more damage to the soil, polluting it and its groundwater. Whereas sapropel fertilizers are absolutely environmentally clean. The application of sapropel to the soil also improves its structure, which in turn has a beneficial effect on the water-air regime of soil, reduces consumption of water up to 10 times (!), binds the salts of heavy metals, radionuclides, pesticide residues (or rapid decomposition of the mentioned), which allows to grow environmentally friendly products, even in degraded and contaminated soils.
fungi help increase the accumulation of Humic Acid rich of organic matter that is resistant to degradation and may stay in the soil for hundred of years;
increases vitamin content in vegetables, fructose content in fruit; neutralizes possible excessive concentrations of radionuclides, heavy metals, pesticides and chemical fertilizer salts in the soil; reduce yield ripening time;
with a regular technology of sapropel fertilizers production (measures are shown for the plant productivity of 1 000 000 ready product ton per year) Regular technology 92 97 % 300 400 % 60 70 % Ground ponds (4.000m 1.000m 1m) Freezing in ponds during the winter time In ponds during the warm season 10 14 months yes Up to 25% 4.000.0005.000.000 ton 0 yes BioDeposit technology 92 97 % 92 97 % 60 70 % Closed tank (100m 50m 1m) Mixing with dry peat in mixer no 10 15 min. no 0%
Individual features of a technology 1 Sapropel humidity in deposit 2 Mined (raw) sapropel humidity 3 Ready product humidity Raw sapropel storage place and its dimensions (L 4 W H) 5 Humidity reduction principle 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Sapropel drying Time period between raw sapropel mined and ready product dispatch Sapropel pollution with weed seeds Loss of nitrogen, amino acids, vitamins and ferments in ready product Consumption of sapropel of natural humidity Adsorbent (peat) consumption Production dependence on the weather conditions
13 Seasonality of plant operation 14 Quality of the ready product 15 Technology influence to the environment
Operates 68 months a year Operates 12 months a with a break to winter period year Not for export Export quality Negative Positive
Results with Celery crop: A: TADCO Soil + NPK B: 1:9 BioDeposit mix with TADCO soil + NPK C: 1:7 BioDeposit mix with TADCO soil + NPK
BioDeposit Agro test results on Sorghum Plants in Saudi Arabia by TADCO company