Micothon is very pleased with both the number of new contacts made and orders secured during the Hortifair 2011! We would like to thank you all for visiting our stand! Please find below a small photo gallery of this years exhibition.
Micothon reveals the NEW Green Line at the Hortifair 2011!
Micothon will again be present at the Horti Fair in the Amsterdam RAI from 1 to 4 November! During the greatest international horticultural trade show for technology, innovation and inspiration we will reveal our NEW Green Line. The Green Line, that has a special spraying solution for every type of greenhouse grower, will help you to get 79% better spraying results!
Also looking for a way to improve your company’s sustainability and save dramatically on PPP’s? The representatives of Micothon will be present to answer all your questions about Spraying, Pesticides and Biological control. We will be very pleased to welcome you to our stand: Hall 11 – Stand 06.01 for a free cup of coffee!
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NEW: Micothon and Metazet present the Micothon Amazone
Discover the patented air-supported Micothon Spraying Technique brought to you by Metazet!
- Smart use of the Metazet Tube-rail M-Lift
- 79% better spraying results
- Dramatic Reduction of PPP’s
- Optimal Crop Protection
- ROI within one year
Specially for commercial greenhouse growers we developed a customized spraying machine that can be placed upon your M-Lift tube rail trolley.
Micothon is the inventor of air-assisted spraying in greenhouses, a technique that results in better penetration and coverage and therefore in better protection.
The low start-up investment will help you to implement a sustainable Integrated Pest Management Program at the lowest costs while ensuring dramatic reduction of PPP’s. Would you like to receive more information about this affordable spraying solution? Please contact us today!
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Dutch Horticultural companies support farming projects in Russia
Daily fresh vegetables for more than 4,000 children in Belarus, even during severe winters. A dream that comes true thanks to the cooperation between three Dutch Horticultural companies – Imex, Micothon and Agri-Rost.
Over the past fifteen years the Russian Children’s Foundation is active in Belarus. One of their main goals is the creation and support of self-supporting farming projects. At the moment the children in boarding schools are entirely depending on the type of food the schools are offering, while the schools hardly get any financial support from the government. Through financial assistance and proper guidance the foundation aims at providing these children with food on a daily basis.
The Dutch companies decided to combine their knowledge of crop protection to support the Russian Children’s Foundation. They offer free chemicals and the needed support to help these programs to succeed. The chemicals are distributed during project visits while schools are instructed in their use. Young children learn how to deal with pesticides in a responsible way, while vegetables are of much better quality.
Together the companies are contributing to the improved quality of food and an adequate winter supplies. It is expected that over 4,100 children will get a daily access to healthy food during the coming winter and spring.
Tips for effective Biological Greenhouse Crop Protection
All over the world the trend is to use less chemicals; agronoms try to work with biological solutions for insect control as much as possible. Also newly developed , non harmful products for fungi control are appearing on the market.
It will take time to get the experience needed for assured protection of the crop with these new methods. Agronoms cannot take the risk of loosing a crop due to insufficient effects and simply have to make sure their cropprotection program is effective. In this article we will share a few tips for an effective and ‘green’ Integrated Pest Management Program.
BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTS NEED PRECISE APPLICATION
One of the new products developed in Holland and getting more and more successful is
Enzicur. In general it is effective against fungi and works well against mildew in cucumber, tomatoes and also roses.
ENZICUR has a curative effect on powdery mildew, and kills both spores and mycelium on the treated surface. ENZICUR is safe for humans and environment, development of resistance is not possible.
This product needs precise application as it only works when dissolved and activity stops when spray solution has dried up. For good results the fungi or spore actually have to make contact with the product. If the product does not get on the fungi or spore hiding behind the stem or on the back side of the leaves, the latters will survive. So one of the essential factors for successful application is a reliable spraying technique.
CLEAN LIGHT TECHNOLOGY
After 4 years of trying another “GREEN” TECHNOLOGY has shows its first successes in
practical application. Clean light is a technique to fight fungi with Uvc light. As you know the sun’s radiation also has a UltraViolet component. This UV radiation
normally kills a lot of fungi and spores in nature without our noticing. However, the glass of the greenhouse does not let UV radiation pass through. To control the fungi in a greenhouse culture, the idea was born to add this radiation artificially. Special UVc lamps were developed and tested. It showed that the UV principle was indeed working in greenhouses.
One problem was finding an easy and regular way to apply the technique. Fungi reproduce every day. So it is essential for population control to repeat the treatment every day or 2 days at maximum. After the technique was build on a micothon , it could be automatically applied. The test grower really saw great results and became enthousiastic. The machine is working there 7 days a week now and mildew is kept in control this way.
We advise agronoms to ensure an effective spraying technique, before integrating biological products in their Integrated Pest Management program. With a combination of biological and chemical PPP’s and integration with UVc crop protection, it will be possible to get even more out of your Micothon spraying robot while creating a sustainable environment for your greenhouse production.
Micothon M2 sold to Meewisse Roses!
Great news today! We sold a second Micothon M2 to Meewisse Roses in Bleiswijk, Netherlands. He was very impressed with the spraying results of his first Micothon Spraying Machine, so decided that it was the time to buy a second one.
3 Micothon Spraying Robots sold by Mertens!
We are very pleased to announce that last week our dealer Mertens (www.mertens.nl) sold three new Micothon Spraying Robots in Holland. The machines will be used for effective crop protection for vegetables and gerbera growers. Using the Micothon spraying robot will ensure a 79% better spraying results, huge savings on pesticides and less growth inhibition.
Meet us at Greenhouse Industry Fair 2011, Kiev
Micothon will be participating at the industrial fair Greenhouse Industry 2011, which will be held on March 2-4, 2011 in the KyivExpoPlaza exhibition center (Kyiv, Salyutna St., 2-B).
The Ukrainian market, that’s responsible for 2.5 thousand hectares of greenhouses for growing vegetables, herbs, flowers and mushrooms is facing a higher level of modernization across Ukrainian enterprises and a promising area for investment in the upcoming years.
The Micothon Horticulture Spraying Robot is representing a green and more effective way of crop protection for modern greenhouses. During these days we will be demonstrating our Micothon Tube/Rail automatic spraying robot and the NEW Micothon EX, especially build for plastic greenhouses.
We are looking forward to meeting you next week at the industrial fair Greenhouse Industry 2011, Kiev!
Huge savings on greenhouse pesticides with new spraying technique
Greenhouse crop producers have been under increasing pressure to reduce their use of pesticides. The easiest way to reduce pesticide use and improve their crop quality is to spray less pesticides. But how will this be possible?
The answer can be found in an unique air-assisted spraying technique used within the Micothon EX spraying robot, developed especially for plastic greenhouses. According to Micothon the spraying result depends 50% on the plant protection products and 50% on the spraying technique. In other words: you are better off giving your crop an expert spraying with a friendly plant protection product than spraying it badly with a good quality agent.
Growers realize that the costs of chemical crop protection are higher than ever. At the same time, buyers, customers and governments are increasingly asking for minimal residue levels. Spraying with the Micothon EX will make it possible to meet these demands and to improve the results of biological controls and bio-rational pesticides.
“Over the past few years we managed to build a full automatic tube/rail spraying robot with 79% better spraying results for glass greenhouses,” said Theo Straathof, general manager of Micothon International. “Dutch growers in other parts of the world asked us to produce a machine with the same spraying technique that can be used in plastic greenhouses.”
“The machine is automatically propelled, which results in uniform coverage of the foliage and improved working conditions. Because of the reduction in plant protecting products use, growers can recoup the cost of this investment in less than 1.5 years.”
The first greenhouse spraying robots are sold to Maridadi Flowers, Naivasha Kenya and Latitude 0º Farms, Ecuador. For more information please visit www.micothon.com or check this movie about the first test of the Micothon EX in Kenya:
