High tech innovation agreement heralds new era of ICL’s fertilizer development

ICL has signed a collaboration agreement to harness the latest sensor-based technology to test proposed fertilizers.

Precision analysis of fertilizer performance

The agreement is with the Faculty of Agriculture, Food, and Environment at the Hebrew University and the technology is called Plantarray.

Developed by Plant-DiTech, the process rapidly analyzes and quantifies a plant’s response to different fertilizers. Using Plantarray is expected to increase precision and very significantly reduce the timeline for developing new fertilizer solution.

Faster science-based crop nutrition solutions

ICL’s VP of Agronomy Hillel Magen says, “As a company that believes in a detailed agronomic-scientific foundation for every material we sell to customers, this system is an important and central tool in our ability to provide customers with science-based solutions.”

The testing will take place at the Hebrew University’s iCORE greenhouse. The most promising formulas and applications will be identified for further development and commercialization.