In April, a team from ARTAL Smart Agriculture and its distributor in Braila (Romania), made a technical visit to one of the main cereal-growing areas of the country, to analyze and offer their solutions to some of the most relevant crops.
The production of cereals like wheat, corn, and rapeseed is extremely susceptible to changes in temperature. It is influenced both by long-term trends in average rainfall and temperature as well as by the interannual variability of the climate.
In many regions in Europe, maximum daily temperatures during the summer of 2022 were the warmest or second warmest recorded during the period since 1991 and an estimated 270.9 million tons of cereals were harvested across the EU. This was 26.7 million tons less than in 2021, the equivalent of a 9% decrease. Special case was Romania that was severely affected by drought and a decline in production of 8.9 million tons (-32%),
As a complementary strategy, ARTAL Smart Agricuture recommends the use of Aminotal Super, a product with a high concentration of free amino acids, 30%, which improves the assimilation of other mineral nutrients (nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, microelements, etc.), advances the development of the crop, increasing the vigor of the plants and improving their resistance to cold and certain diseases.
Free amino acids contained in Aminotal Super serve as protein precursors and components, are actively involved in metabolic and physiological processes at various stages of plant ontogenesis. The multiplex role of amino acids in cereal crops exposed to abiotic stresses is activated with particular emphasis on antioxidant defense systems.
In this case, the application of Aminotal Super previous to stressful situations has proven to protect the plant from any damage and subsequent applications help the cereal to recover quickly and have high yields.