Let’s grow: Vegetables
Background
Packed with vitamins and nutrients, vegetables have an essential role to play in healthy diets. Prepared in a variety of ways, from raw to roasted, vegetables add flavour and goodness to all meals.
Biological solutions add great value to vegetable crops, whether being grown commercially, on a small scale, for subsistence or in the home garden. Vegetables are also the biggest cash crop for growers and add diversification on farms. Whilst niche crops may be exported, most vegetables are sold through fresh produce markets or are contract grown for retailers or processors.
As with all crop production, consumers are driving the change to healthy, sustainable crop production. Growers are under pressure to comply with certification, ensuring standards and demands are being met.
Part 2: Andermatt Madumbi and vegetable production
Andermatt Madumbi offers a comprehensive range of biorational solutions to support vegetable growers. A healthy root system is the foundation of a healthy plant, healthy plants are more resilient to environmental stress factors and better equipped to fight off pests and diseases.
Incorporating biofungicides and bioinsecticides into IPM (Integrated Pest Management) programs offers many benefits:
- Effective, safe pest/disease control which can be alternated with chemical applications.
- Safeguard resistance management.
- Pest/disease control that is safe to use right up until harvesting.
- Safe for use in areas where beneficial insects have been introduced.
- Strong, healthy plants produce high quality crops with enhanced shelf-life.
Root Health
Soil and root health are essential for the production of healthy food. The resulting plants are stronger, exhibiting increased pest and disease resistance.
The Andermatt Madumbi Root Health program combines beneficial microbes with nutritional support. These 4 products are applied in combination at planting to enhance root growth ensuring your plants have the best possible start.
Andermatt Madumbi products to support root health in vegetables:
Plant Vitality
Andermatt Madumbi products to support plant vitality in vegetables:
Andermatt Madumbi’s V12 range provides tailored nutrient support based on the 12 essential components of plant vitality, ie. the engine that drives plant growth.
V12 Range
Andermatt Madumbi’s V12 range provides tailored nutrient support based on the 12 essential components of plant vitality, ie. the engine that drives plant growth.
Bio Crop Protection
Our Bio Crop Protection Range consists of disease and pest management solutions with active ingredients that include fungi, bacteria, baculoviruses and plant extracts.
The following Andermatt Madumbi Bio Crop Protection solutions are registered for use on vegetable crops: