Benefits
Insect Resistance
Hydrakai is designed to make the soil healthy. This healthy soil, full of microbial activity, mycelium and worm life will grow a healthy plant better able to withstand insect and pathogen attack
Test results have shown a substantial difference in insect resistance due to the healthier plant producing more natural defenses proteins and lectins.
Once a crop is insect damaged its yields fall significantly behind a crop with no insect damage. In this test, the insect damage was very significant in the pot with No Hydrakai, And minimal in the pot with Hydrakai. Also leafed volume after 3 months was at least 50% more in the pot with Hydrakai.
Better yields
Once itβs in the ground, results are often obvious in just seven days, Plants shoot faster, have more luster and studies have shown crop yields can be superior. The longer the crop is in the ground, the more obvious the results are. When the weather becomes drier, the results will be more obvious but in our winter testing, there was still a significant difference in growth.
With an application rate of 100kgs per hectare, 1000 kgs goes a long way.
Hydrakai is the future of sustainable farming.
Lower costs
At an application rate of 100kg per hectare, Hydrakai can decrease costs significantly.
When using Hydrakai, you do not need to add any other nutrients. In fact, its proven in the middle east that no nutrients are required for the first several years as the mycelium and microbial activity are working with the nutrients that have remained in the soil from years of traditional farming practices.
Soil testing will confirm nutrient levels. Once additional nutrients are required, nutrients can be added to the soil to supplement the plant growth. However, caution is required to not saturate the soil or add the wrong product that can harm the mycelium and microorganisms.
Potential drought resistance
By enabling soils to hold moisture at the appropriate depth, Hydrakai improves and helps to stabilize soil moisture thereby reducing soil temperatures, reducing compactness and reducing excessive evapotranspiration, or evaporation from the soil. Hydrakai will also cause microbubbles in the soil which allows natural rainfall to penetrate further into the soil and reduce runoff in heavy rain events.
Studies have shown where crops were farmed using high levels of irrigation, that after the application of Hydrakai, watering can reduce to as little as once in 45 days (depends on soil type)
On a personal note, being raised on a farm, I don’t remember dad complaining about needing rain after two weeks of sunshine. It seems now after very short dry spells; the ground is dry and hard. Not conducive to growth. 30 years ago, it could have been dry for a month before this happened. Hydrakai can fix this and get us all back to sustainable farming practices with moisture in the soil.