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Lucas Talamoni Grether

CEO - BLACKSOIL

Blacksoil: Liquid Sowing

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Blacksoil: Liquid Sowing

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Current Agro – Situation

ECONOMIC

LOW PRODUCTIVITY

HIGH COST

FINANCE

ENVIROMENTAL

UNPREDICTABLE WEATHER CONDITIONS

UNEFFICIENT CROP NUTRITION

GAP OF SOWING

GOOD AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES

PROTECT SOIL BIOTIC

SOCIAL

MIGRATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE TO BIG CITIES

NO ACCESS TO AGRO TECH

REGIONAL ECONOMY

ECOSYSTEM SUSTAINABILITY

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Blacksoil Technology

VIDEO

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Blacksoil´s Process

Liquid Sowing: for the first time farmers can control sowing conditions instead of relying on

weather & geography

Learn about the unique formula

Soil is irrigated as it’s sowed

Create a tailor-made fertilizer

mix

Spurs germination &

accelerates growth

Easily retro-fit your machinery

Increases

farmers’ yields & profits

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Blacksoil Technology

Blacksoil system place seeds, water & liquid fertilizer

simultaneously into the furrow

The sowing kit is comprised by

Water tanks to be mounted on the

seed drill

A machine with a hydraulic pump

A board computer that is connected

to a GPRS module and controls the

machine operation

The operator is able to regulate the

liquid that is applied to the furrow,

increasing or decreasing it instantly

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Satelite location & Inspection

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Benefits of the system

ENVIRONMENTAL

Soil preservation: 80% reduction of fertilizer & lime applied

Reduced water use: 99% reduction

Climate change adaptation: stronger and deeper roots

Reduced pollution

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES

SOCIAL

Black Soil's commitment is help farmers improve their fields, adopting agricultural techniques that will enable them to supply themselves and their communities, today and tomorrow

Our solution provides not just significant economic benefits to farmers, but also to consumers and communities in terms of increased food safety and environmental security

PRODUCTIVE

Germination rate: 95+% vs. 50-60% industry average

Reduced expensive re-sowing

Harvest yields: 15-35%, with higher number of plants per m2 (Precision Ag), No precision Ag. 100%-150% more yield.

Sow successfully in poor & dry soils, dramatically increasing productivity

No need to wait for rain: fresh sowing can be done immediately following the previous harvest.

ECONOMIC

Reduced costs:

Efficient use of fertilizers, inoculants, etc.

More efficient & cost-effective use of machinery & labour

Improve plant health, reducing the use of protection products

Quick recovery of investment

Quick recovery of investment

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Agriculture Challenges

NUTRIENTS LOSES: Agricultural practices use 3 times more fertilizers today to supply loses of erosion and the low bioavailability of the nutrients. It’s cause rising costs, water wasting and environment pollution

CEC REDUCTION: The use of chemical fertilizers has changed the Cation Exchange Capacity (CEC) which impacts on soil’s ability to nourish the crop

GREENHOUSE GASES EMISSIONS (GGE): Soil acidity correctives are chemically incompatibles with the fertilizers and regular fertilizers are toxic to the seeds. Farmers need to apply pH correctives, fertilizers and the seeds in 3 steps, increasing the greenhouse gases emissions during the sowing process

WATER COMPETITION: Excess of nutrients and pesticides on the water and the unpredictable rainfalls are increasing the competition for fresh water on the agriculture and increasing it’s costs year by year

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How Blacksoil can help on nutrients loses?

The soil acidity must be neutralized using alkaline

corrective powder such as lime or Magnesium

Carbonate. The chemical reaction of neutralization is

activated by water (rain or artificial irrigation).

Rivers &

cutwater

contaminatio

n

WITH THIS PRACTICE, THE SOIL SURFACE IS EXPOSED TO

EROSION TWO TIMES PER HARVEST AND PART OF THE

CORRECTIVES AND FERTILIZERS APPLIED ARE GONE WITH

PART OF THE PRECIOUS TOPSOIL (SOIL’S FERTILE PORTION)

With the Blacksoil process, the lime and fertilizers

are dissolved on water and applied while the seeds

are plated, giving away the undesirable reaction

between phosphorus and lime.

AS BLACKPHOS AND BLACKCAL ARE APPLIED INTO

THE PLANTING FURROW WITH THE SEEDS, THE LOSES

OF NUTRIENTS BY RUNOFF ARE NEGATIVE.

Without

contamination of

rivers & cutwater

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How Blacksoil can help on CEC reduction?

On the current practices, the lime is applied on

shallow layer of the top soil, reducing the

comfort zone to 4-5 cm

CONFORT ZONE

ACID ZONE WITHOUT NUTRIENTS

WET ZONE

CONFORT ZONE

WITHOUT ACID

ZONE

WET ZONE

THIS PRACTICE RESTRICT THE ROOT’S ABILITY TO CATCH

THE NUTRIENTS ON THE ACID ZONE, WHERE THE

NUTRIENTS AREN’T BIOAVAILABLE BECAUSE OF THE

ACIDITY OF THE SOIL

With the “Blacksoil” system, the soil pH is corrected on the

planting pit, neutralizing everything around, rising the

bioavailability of the nutrients presents on the comfort zone

and eliminating the acid zone

IT MEANS AROUND 100% MORE OF THE SHALLOW COMFORT

ZONE WITH MORE ROOTS VOLUME AND BETTER NUTRITION

CONDITIONS FOR THE PLANTS, REFLECTING A HARVEST WITH

HIGHER PRODUCTIVITY

CEC is used as a measure of soil fertility, nutrient retention capacity, and the capacity to protect

groundwater from cation contamination. In general, higher CEC equals a fertile soil. For many soils, the CEC

is dependent upon the pH of the soil. In other words, acidity increases (pH decreases), lower fertility.

COMFORT ZONE is the soil layer that presents right level of irrigation and properly aeration conditions to

achieve the top yields.

ACID ZONE is the soil layer where roots are not able to absorb nutrients present on the soil solution

WET ZONE characterized by lack of aeration, fertilizer leaching and over-irrigation

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How Blacksoil can help on GGE reduction?

Current practices

SOWING APPLY FERTILIZER APPLY LIME

Lime and phosphorus fertilizers can react and reduce the bioavailability of the phosphorus.

Farmers need to spread these chemicals separately and, in the end, put the seeds into the

planting pits

THESE PRACTICES IMPLIES TO USE A FOSSIL FUEL BASED TRACTOR, 3 TIMES OR

MORE ON EACH LAND

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GGE Reduction

Fertilizer (NPK): 300 kg

Hectares: 1000

Trucks: 10

Fertilizer (Lime): 2000 kg

Hectares: 1000

Trucks: 16

Liquid Fertilizer: 40 lt

Hectares: 1000

Trucks: 2

Liquid Fertilizer: 40 lt

Hectares: 1000

Trucks: 1

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How Blacksoil can help on GGE reduction?

Blacksoil System

ON THE “BLACKSOIL” SYSTEM, LIME, FERTILIZER, INOCULANTS, AGROCHEMICALS

AND SEEDS ARE APPLIED SIMULTANEOUSLY ON THE FURROW, REDUCING

AROUND 2/3 OF THE GGE FROM THE USE OF MACHINERY FOR THESE ACTIVITIES

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How Blacksoil can help on water competition?

Current practices

The seeds must wait for the dissolution by the rain of the granulated

fertilizer in order to be feed for the germination. Alternatively, farmers

pump water up from rivers or underground and spread it over the

surface to accelerate the germination

BEYOND THE EXCESS OF THE WATER CONSUMPTION,

THOSE PRACTICES INCREASE THE EROSION PROCESS

AND, CONSEQUENTIALLY, LOOSES OF SOIL AND

FERTILIZERS

SEED

FERTILIZER

Dry layer

Wet layer

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How Blacksoil can help on water competition?

The BLACKSOIL technology includes a preliminary assessment of the

soil in order to identify if the pH needs correction, the requirements to

addition of nutrients and the amount of water to be added during the

planting process

Furrows are irrigated and seeds are planted simultaneously applying

the right amount of water for germination, this process reduce the water

consumption and create a 33-day sowing period versus the traditional

9-day window

Using the BLACKSOIL TECHNOLOGY, the water and fertilizers are

available immediately for the seeds, accelerating the germination (which

results in expressive productivity gains) and using only 1/3 of the amount

of water during seeding

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Study Results

Germination trial: soya

Black Soil

Conventional Seeding

Germination rate: 95%

+ Plant per hectare

+ Homogeneous crop

+ Yield

Germination rate: 60%

- Plant per hectare

- Homogeneous crop

- Yield

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Study Results

Root development trials

Conventional Seeding

+ root development

+ uptake of nutrients &

water

+ developed crops

+ Yield

- root development

+ susceptibility at adverse

environmental conditions

- developed crops

- Yield

Black Soil

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Study Results

Harvest Yields: 10-35% productivity per hectare in field trials

Blacksoil Control Blacksoil Control Blacksoil Control Blacksoil Control

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Success Stories

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Paraguay

Ministry of Agriculture - Paraguay

“Program for the Modernization and Mechanization of Family Agriculture – Sowing Opportunities”

The objective of the project is the conditioning of soil and

mechanized sowing of hectares with agricultural crops

Conditioning of soil, productivity per hectare

Yield improve living conditions

Yield & fertilizer cost

Total Program

• 7 States: Concepción, San

Pedro, Caaguazú, Caazapá,

Alto Paraná, Canindeyú &

Misiones

• > 17 million families benefited

• > 70 thousend people

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Paraguay

66.000 Beneficiaries Year of sowing Organization Hectares

2014 - 2015CENCOPAN/

ITAIPU/STP6357

2015 - 2016 UNOPS 6000

2016 - 2017 UNOPS 6000

12.000 Families

Benefited

18.357 Hectares

Planted

Have more time to engage in other activities

Capacities strengthened through the training process

Have improved production

Inclusion facilitated by the project

Families Opinion

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Argentina

Quick recovery of investment

EEA INTA Manfredi - Ministry of Agriculture

Crop: Soya

Date: December 21, 2015

Plants per m2: 48 seeds/m2

Trial

40 lt/ha liquid fertilizer + inoculant + water

10 lt/ha liquid fertilizer + inoculant + water

100 kg/ha sólid fertilizer + inoculant + water

Witness: without fertilizer

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+ Root lenght

+ Nutrients & water uptake

+ Biomass

+ Developed Crops

HARVEST YIELDS

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18% Yield Liquid Fertilizer

vs Solid Fertilizer

+ Nodules/plant

+ Biological Nitrogen fixation

+ Nutrient use efficiency

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Argentina

Amisud (Private Farms)

Region: Gualeguaychú – Entre Ríos

Using Blacksoil technology since 2013

Own hectares

Offers seeding service

2016-2017 Drought problems in

the region

Sowing at optimum date

Total hectares planted

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Financing support options

Machine control system stores GPS

based sowing data

Data can be used to support and

supervise financing:

Sowing date known

Crop and variety known

Quantity of fertilizer known

Harvest date can be estimated

Blacksoil can support in loan portfolio

management

Mapping of customer plots

Monitoring visits

Harvest follow-up

(Collection)

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Press

http://www.fao.org/family-farming/detail/en/c/294776/

http://www.lamira.com.py/siembra-liquida-dispara-rinde-de-cosechas-

en-asentamientos-campesinos/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIDfuZ7Ribo

http://www.ip.gov.py/ip/?p=19816

http://m.abc.com.py/edicion-impresa/suplementos/abc-rural/maiz-con-

tecnologia-de-siembra-liquida-en-tacuati-poty-1325032.html

http://www.lanacion.com.py/2015/05/19/unos-65-asentamientos-

campesinos-implementan-siembra-liquida-mecanizada/

http://m.abc.com.py/edicion-impresa/suplementos/centinela/incursionan-

en-la-siembra-liquida-1366811.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBv97d104rU&feature=youtu.

be

• Video

• Press Notes

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Lucas Talamoni Grether – CEO BLACKSOIL

[email protected]

www.blacksoilglobal.com

+54911 6424 2702

Blacksoil Global

www.blacksoilglobal.com

Blacksoil Paraguay

www.blacksoil.com.py

Blacksoil Argentina

www.blacksoil.com.ar

Blacksoil Brazil

www.blacksoil.com.br

Blacksoil Uruguay

www.blacksoilglobal.com

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