What is Root Health?
Sustained yields start with healthy soils and roots.
The Andermatt Root Health program combines increased growth-promoting microbes with nutritional support to optimise root health and development, nutrient uptake, and disease tolerance.
The Andermatt Root Health Program incorporates a suite of different products,
used in combination to enhance soil, root and ultimately plant growth.
What is Root Health?
Sustained yields start with healthy soils and roots.
The Andermatt Root Health program combines increased growth-promoting microbes with nutritional support to optimise root health and development, nutrient uptake, and disease tolerance.
The Andermatt Root Health Program incorporates a suite of different products, used in combination to enhance soil, root and ultimately plant growth.
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By establishing a quality foundation for a crop, the ability of those plants to use what is available, cope with abiotic and biotic stresses, reduce the impact of pests and disease, and importantly recover from these, a better crop and larger yield is more likely.
Can you afford to NOT have healthy soils and roots?
Healthy yields start with healthy soil & roots.
At Andermatt in Africa, we believe a mind-set change in IPM programs is needed, if a farmer’s goal is to maximise their crops’ potential. Rather than focusing on the above-ground plant and pest control, growers should prioritise and understand the below-ground environment, to ensure root and plant health are maximized.
In terms of the 80:20 principle, 80% of ‘farming’ takes place underground.
Healthy roots and soil are essential for the production of nutrient-dense food.
Plants grown with Andermatt Root Health Program are stronger, exhibiting increased pest and disease resistance. Ideally, treatment should start in the nursery and continue into the field, with repeat applications throughout the crop’s lifetime. The biggest benefits are usually seen in the first 2-3 years after transplanting in orchard crops.
The Andermatt Root Health Program incorporates a suite of different products, used in combination to enhance soil, root and ultimately plant growth. The program is also successfully being implemented in row crops.