Offering tight and even dispersion of beneficials in a broad reach of glasshouse crop , Entomatic ™ is a raw adaptable automatic dispenser to help growers foreshorten labor costs and optimize ascendance .
Available worldwide exclusively from Biobest , Entomatic is the result of a collaboration with Hortiworld , the Dutch - based producer of state - of - the - art Bio Bull horticultural equipment .
“ Entomatic has been designed and organize to pitch a very even , precise , and homogenous menstruation of mite product , such as Phytoseiulus - System , Amblyseius - System , and Swirskii - System , ” explains Hanne Steel , Biobest product portfolio manager for beneficials . “ It can also act a valuable role in dispensing desirable pupa and egg - based biocontrol products . ”
“ Manually distribute beneficials can be labour intensive and therefore time - consuming and costly , ” she says . “ A insistent job which need eminent levels of focus , and it can be difficult to assess if the project has been perform well . To optimize biocontrol strategies and its effectiveness , it is crucial to get even distribution of beneficials throughout the harvest . ”
Having been approach by a north American strawberry cultivator keen to automate this process , HortiWorld set about designing and mastermind a reliable solvent . In 2020 , at the image stage , the party border on Biobest , and the two have collaborated to fine - melodic phrase and validate the Entomatic and bring it to market .
“ Compared to other dispenser , Entomatic continuously and gently blows the mites onto the crop , ” explains HortiWorld ’s Rembrandt van Meegen . “ By decelerate down the air flow , more soupcon earth on the leaves - where they are ask – with minimal fall to the floor . The man-made lake enables different products to be carried . When pre - mixed , an auger system provides continuous and homogenous supplying to the administer tip . ”
“ A uncomplicated modular arrangement , the machine is highly adaptable and can be configure to become almost all glasshouse crop – soft yield , protected salad and ornamentals - and any growing system , ” he say . “ We ’ve design it to be easy to configure and intuitive to use . ”
“ Extensively trialed and tested , Entomatic can cover all common beneficial aircraft carrier stuff – vermiculite , sawdust , bran , and buckwheat husk . With no demand for a piping rails system , it can be mount on a pushcart , tractor , or spray equipment . All this adaptability bring benefits to us as manufacturing business , Biobest as suppliers , and raiser as user , ” he says .
“ It can be challenging to schedule and coordinate sufficient crop prole to manually give biocontrols cooccur with deliveries . With 2 - 16 dispensing points , the Entomatic can automatically lot beneficials in up to 16 quarrel simultaneously . Depending on the number of parcel out points and run-in length , it has a dispensing capacity of up to 1,5 ha per hr . ”
Summing up , Hanne say : “ while help growers improve their labour efficiency , the Entomatic helps assure the beneficials are dispensed evenly throughout the crop – a requirement of unspoilt biologic restraint scheme . ”
