As this year’s rainy season begins, we are starting to see immense progress on our plantations. Our neem and coconuts trees are thriving and we are continuously working to improve the development of our sustainable projects by investing into new infrastructure, integrating futuristic technologies and regenerative best-practices for our agricultural system.
Primal Group CEO Anthony J. Archer invites you to join us as we fly over our projects and take a look at our new facilities and infrastructure, that allow us to evolve a more sustainable future through agriculture.
Through responsible crop management, implementing new input precision techniques and restoring critical ecosystems, we have redefined agriculture in the region and are shaping a thriving community around our projects. Below you’ll find some recent developments at our plantations:
Parry’s Bio, the market leader in Azadarachtin-based bio-pesticides, sent its EID team to inspect and review our neem plantations in Brazil. During their visit, in which our C.C.O. Andrew Goodman, proudly toured Parry’s US based President, Mr. Rao and his Brazil Executives, around the largest neem plantation in the world, our lead agronomist, Henrique dos Santos Lopes, demonstrated the different precision techniques we use to apply neem-based pesticides in order to maximize yields while ensuring environmental protection. The Parry’s Bio visit went extremely well and we are working towards the possibility of a synergistic partnership between our two companies…keep an eye out for updates on this.
With the rainy season underway, flowering has begun. This is great news for our apiaries, which are now deemed productive and expected to produce up to 40kg of honey and 1kg of propolis (a wax with antibiotic properties) per hive, per year. By pollinating, our bee populations ensure that the surrounding ecosystems remain diverse and sustainable, while strengthening the yield potential of our crops.
We are constantly trying out different techniques and collaborating with other companies and universities in order to test optimal plantation management methods for our project. This photo shows our lead agronomist, Henrique dos Santos Lopes, with our employees Marciano, Robson, Clemido and Rogeiro, alongside students from the Federal University of Ceara. The students assisted our members with a technique known as Endotherapy. Endotherapy allows for the direct application of chemicals, including the Bio-chemicals that we use, without waste and contamination, while traditional spraying techniques can result in negative effects for human health and the environment. By injecting a precise amount of the substance directly into the sap of the tree, endotherapy ensures an even distribution and immediate uptake of vital nutrients.
For more pictures and information on the latest developments on our plantations, please visit our Gallery.