CO2 GRO Inc (TSX-V:GROW, OTCQB:BLONF), which recently presented at the virtual Japan Plant Factory Conference (JPFA) in September, reports that several greenhouse growers expressed interest in its CO2 Delivery Solutions technology.
The company was invited to present its technology to an exclusive member-only forum at the 10th-annual conference held September 14-16.
The technology’s benefits include increased plant production, lower CO2 use and costs, protection from pathogens, increased profitability, and the reduction of a grower's ecological footprint, regardless of the type of protected grow structure.
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The Toronto-based company’s CO2 Delivery Solutions technology is revolutionizing the global 600 billion square foot protected agriculture industry. It creates a saturated CO2 solution that when misted onto plants provides growers that cannot gas with CO2 the opportunity to increase plant yields by up to 30% and profits by up to 100%.
Applying saturated CO2 also suppresses the development of pathogens such as E.coli and powdery mildew, helping to reduce crop losses.
Aaron Archibald, vice president of sales and strategic alliances at CO2 GRO, noted that Japan was one of the first countries to develop and adopt high-tech Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) greenhouses and indoor growing facilities. Being an island exposed to long food supply chains, the government has strongly supported local produce growers and food suppliers.
“This JPFA virtual conference and our ongoing membership is a highly effective way to introduce our CO2 Delivery Solutions to Japan's 5-billion square foot protected ag market which is on par with Spain and Mexico's protected ag markets,” Archibald said in a statement.
“We believe we can provide significant benefits to protected ag growers in Japan including increased yields, increased profits and the reduction of ecological footprints."
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