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Jonathan Carr, Commercial Director at Maxwell Amenity, visits a manufacturing plant in Belgium that, due to the demand for organic fertilisers, is doubling its capacity
ny doubt that there is a huge growth in the demand for organic fertilisers was dispelled on a recent trip to visit the vast manufacturing plant of Rendapart Organic Plant Food International, situated at Aalst, a few miles north of Brussels in Belgium. A huge modern factory, covering no less than four hectares (40,000 square metres), produces some 21,000 tonnes of organic fertilisers annually, and demand is such that a duplicate plant is about to take shape next to it in order to double output.
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The reasons for this growth in demand for organic products are numerous. Perhaps the biggest driver has been the growing environmental movement that has raised awareness of the considerable benefits of using these naturally occurring ingredients that feed the soil and its micro flora, not just the plants being grown. There is strong evidence that plant health is improved, root growth is greater and disease problems less where these products are used. They give so much more than the NPK that so many conventional chemical based fertilisers give, and their organic ingredients provide, in one go, many of the extras that chemical fertiliser users often buy in, such as sea kelp and humic acids, so they offer good value.
Derived from feather meal,
bone meal, vinasses (a by- product of sugar beet), soya, cocoa shells, sea kelp and numerous other organic sources, the same N, P and K can be offered in a gentler form, that breaks down and releases its nutrients over an extended time in tune with natural variations in
temperature and moisture. In other words, when the plant needs these most.
Organic products generally have a much lower salt content than chemical fertilisers, and this is increasingly important in current times when rainfall is scarce and water is short and expensive. This is because soil, which is fed with higher salinity chemical fertilisers, will have a water content with higher saline levels.
Plants rely on osmosis, or a higher salt concentration within them, to absorb water from the surrounding soil. In drought stress conditions, what little water is left in the soil becomes more saline, as it is lost or evaporates away. There comes a time where this salinity can match that in the plant, at which point it can no longer take in water, even if present, so it wilts away.
If you dip a plant’s roots in seawater, this is what happens, and water is actually drawn back out of the plant. So, organic products that reduce that salt input also reduce the amount of drought stress, and
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