Agriculture Tech Company Helps Plants to Absorb More Water

BLH Aqua Technology makes  Aqutonix,  an eco-friendly farm produce booster that enhances the plant’s water absorption so that it can grow bigger using reduced amounts of water.

The company claims that Aqutonix, combined with effective irrigation facilities at the farm, can yield more from plants, thus increasing a farm’s profit.

“The common methods that improves productivity of agriculture are fertilisers and gene manipulation, which increase farm productivity less than 10 per cent,” Sunguk Hong, CEO of Aqutonix told TechNode. “Using Aqutonix, the productivity increases by more than 10 per cent.”

Hong and his team members bring more than 20 years of experience in agriculture, engineering, and electronics. Founded in 2015, the agriculture tech company has tested prototypes of Aqutonix at more than 80 farms in Korea by the fourth quarter of this year.

“According to the test on 19 different crops, plants have shown increased yield up to 43 per cent with an average of 25 per cent. It can increase a farm’s annual sales at least US$ 15,000 per unit,” says Hong.

The secret to plant’s absorbing more water is by leveraging the characteristic of aquaporin. Aqutonix breaks water molecule clusters into smaller sizes using a high voltage electric field so that aquaporin can more efficiently dissociate water molecule cluster and transport water.

“Using Aqutonix, farmers can reduce the amount of water they need to use by 20 per cent,” says Hong.

Source: E27

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