One of the most important issues in agriculture, and in general any crop production, is the saving of irrigation water, which is becoming more expensive every year. Attempts to artificially conserve water in the soil have stimulated the creation of high-tech means of water absorption. 

Hydrogels in agriculture

The main group of such substances is represented by various types of hydrogels. However, hydrogels are powerful synthetic polymer adsorbents capable of absorbing hundreds of times their own weight in water. This "nature" of hydrogels makes it impossible to use them in organic farming, including for the following constraining reasons:

  1. unsafe concentration of residues of fissile hydrogels in the soil;
  2. the need to use special equipment and individual workflows for the introduction of hydrogels into the soil;
  3. Difficulties with uniform distribution of material in the root zone;
  4. release of hydrogel granules due to increase and buoyancy, moving away from plant roots;
  5. obstacles to plant growth and provocation of death due to waterlogging at high dosages of hydrogel.

However, the main limitation for classical agriculture remains the high cost of hydrogels. Their use in large-scale agriculture is very limited and unprofitable.

Calcium silicate in agriculture

Taking into account the development strategy and scientific direction of SP "CINTA", LLC, the task was set and successfully solved in the search and implementation of a natural alternative to hydrogels. Natural silicates, including calcium silicate - wollastonite, turned out to be such an alternative. Instead, another silicate, diatomite, has a more complex effect. This natural silicon mineral consists of a rock that is based on armored algae and occupies a certain layer of the earth's surface. The power of such silicates in absorbing moisture is much greater than their own mass, and retaining moisture even during high solar activity. However, such moisture is easily absorbed by plants.

These and similar silicates were used by SP "CINTA", LLC in the development and implementation of complex organic fertilizers, ameliorants and reclamators TM GREENODIN. It should be noted that initially the development of the use of natural silica to retain moisture and improve soil quality, in general, was described by Ukrainian scientists in the mid-1970s, and was covered in more detail by such well-known biologists as Zaimenko Natalia Vasilievna and Slyusarenko Alexander Nikolaevich, who successfully used silicon-containing minerals, especially Tripel, in their developments.

 Absorbing water during rains or irrigation, these natural silicates, including silicon-containing minerals, confidently retain such moisture from solar activity, and gradually give it to the roots.

Under such conditions, a reasonable and successfully implemented solution to the problem of water retention in the fertile soil layer in organic and classical agriculture is the use of natural silicates, or the use of complex organic fertilizers, ameliorants and reclamators TM GREENODIN.