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Bioscience expertise for a different and efficient agriculture Far from preconceived ideas about agriculture, pesticides and plants, Medinbio offers producer organizations, large retailers and the food industry a welcome process innovation: an aggregative method at the service of healthy and efficient agriculture. Detailed review.
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to each new production. Within this framework n 2013 Thierry Picaud created Medinbio after Medinbio is currently developing new generation a first experience at the head of a start-up in biocontrol solutions which will integrate nanoanimal health: wishing to find an alternative to encapsulations of specific attraction to each insect antibiotics, he developed an integrative approach to manage only the target species, without colof unitary solutions bringing together nutritionlateral damage thanks to fungi capable of destroying health, immunostimulation and natural products. insect pests. He successfully resumed this double approach centered on the method and the product at Medinbio. In 2019 Medinbio achieved a turnover of €1.050 A three-stage rocket-like approach: soil, natural million and has reach €1.5 million in 2020. Not vaccination and treatment. “By orchestrating miIr Thierry Picaud, surprisingly, its development prospects are significrobiological actions at ground level to fortify the founder / CEO of Medinbio cant, starting with France. However, its products plant by the root, by activating the defense genes are also being registered in Belgium and the by defense stimulators such as plant extracts and company has just received approval in Germany for its main then adjusting the treatments to the right period thanks to the soil protection product. “We plan to triple our activity in the next decision aids offered by computer tools linked to climatology 3 years” underlines Thierry Picaud. Justified trust! and the kinetics of diseases, we can match chemistry without loss of performance” explains Thierry Picaud. Indeed crops must be adapted to these three levels if the farmer wants to move towards intensive organic farming, where productivity is maintained with fewer chemical active ingredients. In fine Medinbio brings together the best of both worlds: the yield of conventional farming and the quality of organic farming. Yet steering biology remains a complex issue. This is why Medinbio’s team of bioengineers offers training, detection tools as well as decision support tools like computerized weather stations: these forecast the arrival of pathogens and allow to treat them at the right time. To date Medinbio has a wide range of microorganisms and uses the concept of prebiotics to boost their effects. The company relies on a range of three elicitors, i.e. natural vaccines adapted to different groups of pathogens. Medinbio has also developed and patented formulations intended to manage periods of fungal risk thanks to its ultrasonic plant extraction technique.
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This unprecedented approach has aroused the interest of heavyweights in the food industry. In France Medinbio works for the Carrefour group: it manages the adaptation of the crop plants in its quality sectors to enable them to do without pesticides. The company also collaborates with large companies like Bonduelle and Agrial, a multi-specialist agricultural and agri-food cooperative enterprise. It must be said that a recent law allows the application to plants of plant solutions used in human and animal health. “This expanded toolbox is a boon for the deployment of our aggregative approach” rejoices Thierry Picaud.
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Medinbio works in close collaboration with the Catholic University of Louvain and the Faculty of Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech (University of Liège). This collaboration allows the company to carry out fundamental research in order to define the program best suited
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