Business Group AZCUBA produced in 2014 about 4.5 million liters of biostimulant Fitomas-E, the double of what have been achieved in the previous year, Carlos Gonzalez, director of sugarcane by-products of that entity, stated today.
In conversation with Prensa Latina, Gonzalez also said that the implementation in the period of a plant in the Ciro Redondo sugar mill, about 400 kilometers east of the capital, contributed to that result, satisfying the demand of the moment.
Fitomas, a by-product of the Cuban sugarcane industry, is a biostimulant of rooting foliation application, to help, due to its anti-stress quality, to overcome the effects caused by nutritional deficiency, drought, excess of moisture, pest attack, among others.
The production of the new plant joins to one pilot plant existing in the Cuban Institute for Researches on Sugar Cane By-products (ICIDCA), a center that developed that technology some years ago, and which provides more than two million liters annually.
According to experts, this is a foliation substance that is added to irrigation water by sprinkler and its components are organic extract, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, elements capable of benefiting twenty crops, mainly sugar cane.
The biostimulant accelerates the germination of seeds of several kinds, increases vegetative and rooting development, and enhances the action of herbicides and pesticides, by which reduces crop cycle and increases performance.