AWARD YEAR
2021
CATEGORY
Community
GOALS
Zero Hunger, Good Health & Well-being, Sustainable Cities & Communities, Life On Land
KEYWORDS
fertilizer, Clean, agriculture, artificial intelligence
COUNTRY
United States of America
DESIGNED BY
Privot Bio
WEBSITE
https://www.pivotbio.com/
Privotbio, cleaner fertiliser
The planet needs a clean alternative to synthetic nitrogen fertilizer now.Pivot Bio has the solution
Half of our world’s food supply is dependent on synthetic nitrogen fertilizer, yet it has serious environmental impacts. Fertilizer contributes to about 500 ocean dead zones around the globe; decomposes into nitrous oxide which is responsible for about 5 percent of global warming; and prevents the natural ability of soil microbes to produce nitrogen that nourish food crops. Farmers are looking for new tools today that can help them reliably feed their nitrogen-hungry crops in a more environmentally sustainable way.
Recognizing current fertilizer practices are unsustainable, we’re solving the toughest problem of all: nitrogen fixation in cereal crops. Through the power of biology, machine learning and computational modeling, we reawaken microbes’ natural ability to convert nitrogen from the air to meet crops’ daily nitrogen needs. Pivot Bio PROVEN®, is applied in-furrow at the time of planting. As the seed germinates and roots grow, Pivot Bio microbes adhere to the epidermis of the root