Agro Chemicals

LSTA® HYDROGEL is a potassium based cross linking hydrogel polymer that can potentially influence soil permeability, density, structure, texture, evaporation and infiltration rate of water through the soil. ALSTA® HYDROGEL particularly reduces the irrigation frequency and compaction tendency, it stop erosion and water runoff and increase the soil aeration and microbial activity.In arid areas, the use of ALSTA® HYDROGEL in the sandy soil (macro-porous medium) increases the water-holding capacity, and significantly improves the quality of plants. It slowly releases this absorbed water to the plants when needed. ALSTA® HYDROGEL particles may be taken as “mini-water reservoirs” in soil. Water will be used from these reservoirs upon the root demand through osmotic pressure difference. ALSTA® HYDROGEL also acts as a controlled release system by favoring the uptake of some nutrient elements, holding them tightly, and delaying their dissolution. Consequently, the plant can still access some of the fertilizers, resulting in improved growth and performance rates. ALSTA® HYDROGEL can also be used as retaining material in the form of a seed additive (to aid in germination and seedling establishment), seed coating, root dips, and for immobilizing plant growth regulator or protecting agents for controlled release.

Application

• Bare root Dipping: To prevent the dessication of the roots of seedlings during transplanting or transportation, 1kg of ALSTA® HYDROGEL is mixed in 150-200 liters of water with/without an additional fungicide/bactericide, and allowing it to stand for 15 minutes.
• Arboriculture: ALSTA® HYDROGEL reduces mortality rate due to transplantation shocks and enhances root development. A hole is dug about three times the volume of the root, at the plantation site, and 1-2kgs of ALSTA® HYDROGEL per m3 of soil is mixed. After hydration, the products stabilizes the plant.
• Common Plants and trees such as vegetable plantation, corn, sugarcane, etc: 5-3.0kgs of ALSTA® HYDROGEL per acre along with the above arboriculture practice improves and promotes seedling growth.
• Young Plants: 10-20gms of ALSTA® HYDROGEL per tree is mixed with the soil matrix per tree.
• Fully grown trees such as mango, teak, etc: 40 -100gms of ALSTA® HYDROGEL per tree is mixed with the soil matrix.
• Hydroponics: ALSTA® HYDROGEL reduces the water stress when mixed with substrate is mixed. For less permeable once like peat or composts, 1-2kgs of ALSTA® HYDROGEL per m3 of the substrate is mixed.

Benefits

• Increases water holding capacity of the soil thereby reducing irrigation frequency.
• Its limits water and nutrient loss through soil leaching.
• Reduces evaporation.
• Improves the physical properties of soil by enhancing aeration.
• Enhances plant growth by providing water and nutrients to the root zone of the plants
• Reduces compaction tendency
• Reduces erosion and water runoff
• Enhances plant performance specially in arid areas
• Helps in the long term protection of environment against drought and groundwater contamination
• Prevents dehydration of the seedlings
• Reduces transplanting shock thereby reduce mortality rate of plants
• Mixed with cellulose mulch, it helps in stabilizing newly graded soils
• which are able to maintain a minimum amount of surface water
• Used in large scale farming where it increases soil aeration enhancing germination and development of roots
• When mixed with fertilizers, it can stably provide fertile nutrients to the
• roots for a longer period
• Absorbs water, fertilizer, fungicide and release them slowly to the plants upon need

Hydrogen Peroxide stabilized with the use of silver salts like silver nitrate or silver Nano particles; this stabilized blend of hydrogen peroxide and silver, together known as silver peroxide proves itself as a potent and overly powerful biocide effective on a wide range of microorganisms. Silver Peroxide is a multipurpose disinfectant with an extensive variety of uses/ applications.

Benefits of Silver Peroxide

• Colourless, odourless, tasteless
• Long lasting disinfection
• Effective in low concentrations
• Stable over a wide pH and temperature range
• Skin friendly
• Biodegradable into water and oxygen
• Non mutagenic with no resistance buildup by microbes

Silver in Silver Peroxide works in three ways:

• It stabilizes the hydrogen peroxide
• It activates the hydrogen peroxide upon exposure to pollution
• Silver has anti-microbial activity

The silver in hydrogen peroxide acts on the DNA, while the hydrogen peroxide is destructive on the microbial cell walls, making this hydrogen peroxide with silver work on a double stage.