ABOUT

O3-SBD is a collaborative project between University of Jordan (PLANT PROTECTION DEPARTMENT) and MANASEER NATURAL SOLUTIONS to bring innovative solutions to Jordanian agriculture in solving soil-borne diseases in deciduous crops with sustainable ecofriendly innovative solutions and targeting to reduce the use of pesticides.

Soil-borne plant pathogens cause extensive losses to agricultural production globally and specifically in Jordan. These pathogens cause diseases such as root rots, damping-off and wilts that have a direct cost to plant growth and survive, and reduce the efficiency of water and nutrient uptake, For primary production industries, this also has an associated impact on harvest, farm productivity, crops health for consumer.

For deciduous and main strategic crops in Jordan such us onion, potatoes, tomatoes, lettuce, cucumber and garlic soilborne diseases can be in different pathogens such as virus, nematodes, fungus and bacteria. In conventional practices farmers use mainly, the easiest option with pesticides and agrochemicals. Based on the Jordan National Situation Report On Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPS) final report, many are hazardous and are still in use by Jordanian farmers; however they are banned and/or for use with exceptions in other countries.

The innovative solutions in O3-SBD project from Manaseer Natural Solutions will be to bring the Jordanian farmers with technics in level of Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs) 8 and 9 to attain the market and facilitate the products and associated services to easy, fast, profitable and safe utilization.

O3-SBD will provide farmers utilization of soil disinfection by ozonated water and coupled to soil regeneration by bio stimulants. It’s a biocontrol technology dual O3/BIOSTIMULANTS free residues and no MRLs instead of using the pesticides; which they are harmful, highly hazardous to the human health, farmers and consumers.

This O3-SBD solutions will participate to create values in all chain from farm to fork and targeting sustainability and food security to reduce losses in farms, distribution and final consumers.