IONITE SUBSTRATE FOR EFFICIENT PLANTS CULTIVATION 2 Hot Issue #1 - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

IONITE SUBSTRATE FOR EFFICIENT PLANTS CULTIVATION

2 Hot Issue #1 – World population growth

3 Hot Issue #1 – Global Hunger • One in nine people worldwide are chronically undernourished • 44 countries have a “serious” level of hunger, while 8 have an “alarming” level • Globally 161 million under-five year olds were estimated to be stunted • Every 3,6 second a child dies because of hunger

4 Top-5 reason - soil fertility

5 ZION • HQ: Moscow, Russia; R&D: Minsk, Belarus. • Key competence - state-of-art technologies for agricultural needs • Full-cycle pilot manufacturing facility (capacity 200 MT/year) • Leading-edge testing labs • Solid and professional team ZION R&D lab, 2015

6 ZION ZION is a mixture of micronutrients captured by natural ion-exchangers (zeolites) as positively or negatively charged ions. It is not fertilizer! ZION is high concentrated granulated nutritious media for plant growing. Plant can grow directly on the soil beads. Historically artificial soil was developed for application in space shuttles, submarines, shelters, arctic stations, etc. ZION works like complex soil, as aggregate of humus and ion-exchange materials.

7 ZION key applications • Acceleration of natural soil formation on the moving sands, bare grounds; remediation of irreversibly depleted soils. • Growing seedlings in horticultures, adaptation of cuttings in vegetation plant multiplication. • Care of individual gardens, home planting, growing and multiplication of valuable plants for floral design. • Improvement of the arrangement of grass fields. 1 kg of ZION can produce 3-5 kg of green plant biomass without fertilization and watering only with distilled water and it can be reproduced for several generations of plants.

8 ZION properties Exchangeable cations in nutrient media, ZION consists of m-eq/100 gram micronutrients in 10-20 times 60 higher content than nutrient 180 m-eq/100gram Ca solutions or natural soil. 50 m-eq/100 gram 40 Cation exchange capacity, m- Ca Mg eq/100 g: 30 Nutrient solution – 10-12 K Sod-podzolic soil – 3-30 20 Clay soil – 25-40 Mg 10 Black soil – 30-50 K Ca K Mg ZION – 150-300 0 Nutrient ZION Clay soil Biona-111 solution

9 ZION properties Total n nitrogen (N) Ph Phosphorus (P 2 O 5 ) Po Potassium (K 2 O) Nutritious m medium mg/ mg/dm 3 mg/ mg/kg mg/ mg/dm 3 mg/ mg/kg mg/ mg/dm 3 mg/ mg/kg ZIO ION 6000 6000 5900 5900 14100 14100 238 238 710 710 400 400 Nutritious s solution Black s soil - 50 -150 - 700 - 500 Clay s soil - 50-150 - 300 - 300 Glasshouse s soil - 300 - 200 - 250 Nutritious s soil «Fl Florabel» 210 630 500 1500 400 1200

10 Plant root in nutrient solution

11 Plant root in natural soil

12 Plant root in ZION

13 Acceleration of natural soil formation 2 1 C 2 1 C Effect of granulated ZION substrate adding to the water-washed sand: C – control (peat soil); Samples 1-2 contain 5% and 50% of ZION (95% and 50% of water-washed sand), respectively.

14 Acceleration of natural soil formation The Dactilis glomerata roots developed in the sand with 2% of granulated ZION (left) and in the bare sand (right)

15 Acceleration of natural soil formation Yield, gram/pot • Mixture of 20 g of ZION 14 with one liter of clean sand is 12 equivalent in fertility to commercial nutrient grounds 10 • ZION contains no 8 pathogenic micro-organisms or pests. After protracted use 6 (for 3-5 years) the fertility of ZION can be reclaimed 4 2 0 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 % Biona in the sand ZION, %

16 Acceleration of natural soil formation 1 C Experiments on Dactilis glomerata growth. Sample C – control (sand). Sample 1 – addition of 1% of granulated ZION medium

17 Acceleration of natural soil formation 1 2 C Experiments on Alfalfa growth. Sample C – control (sand). Samples 1, 2 – addition of 1% and 2% of granulated ZION, respectively

18 Acceleration of natural soil formation 14 days C 1 21 days 1 C Experiments on tomatos growth. Sample C – control (peat soil). Samples 1 – addition of 10% of granulated ZION to sand

19 Acceleration of natural soil formation 1 C Experiments on green pepper growth. Sample C – control (peat soil). Sample 1 – addition of 10% of granulated ZION to sand

20 Growing seedlings in horticultures 1 2 C The cucumber plant grown on the standard garden soil (C); 1% and 2 % granulated ZION, respectively

21 Improving the arrangement of grass lawns Experiments on grass lawns. Sample C – control (sand). Samples 1, 2 – addition of 10% and 50% of granulated ZION, respectively 2 1 C

22 Improving the arrangement of grass lawns C 1 Experiments on street lawn in Moscow (4,5 weeks). C – control (regular lawn). 1 – addition of 5% of granulated ZION

23 Improving the lettuce cultivation 1 C Experiments on lettuce cultivation (3,5 weeks). C – control (regular peat soil). 1 – addition of 3% of granulated ZION

24 Plants adaption ü Cherry ü Cherry clones ü Apple tree clones ü Grape ü Black currant ü Gooseberry ü Wild strawberry ü Raspberry ü Hop

25 Latest development – fibrous nutritious media Plants grown on the 100% fibrous nutritious media without any soil added and watered with regular tap water

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