“We want to expand the plantation that can produce sustainably in a well-conditioned soil environment by using CHITOSE’s original technology which converts waste to raw materials.”
Southeast Asian palm plantations holds 85% share of the world’s palm oil market. However, the actual situation is severe due to the high damage done to the soil in order to gain a higher yield in a short time, which is causing various blights or obstacles to continuous cropping by the pathogenic bacteria from losing microbial balance in the soil. Thus, we established a way to produce microbial materials that suppresses the target pathogenic bacteria by using our original composting technology that recycles agricultural organic wastes, which traditionally can only be disposed. Now, we are developing, producing, and marketing of the microbial materials in collaboration with palm plantation.
By aiming to create a new plantation system that cultivates crops while enriching the bacterial flora of the soil, we are expanding the creation of sustainable economic value.
Malaysia, Japan, India, Indonesia, China
Sime Darby Plantation, etc.
Soil environmental conservation (improvement) in Southeast Asia is essential for ensuring water and food in the world, and the method needs to be customized according to the conditions of the target land. Among soil improvement, maintaining the microbiota in an appropriate range is a very complicated and meticulous work, but I believe that it can be completed by properly fermenting the organic waste and putting it into the soil.
