Iranian Company Makes Non-Chemical Pesticides

“We succeeded in production of all kinds of ergonomic left-handed amino acids and in our knowledge-based company, we are specialized in production of protein hydrolyzate,” Parvin Baradaran, the managing director of the knowledge-based company stationed at Shahr-e Kord’s Science and Technology Park, told ANA.

Noting that protein hydrolyzate is viewed as a non-chemical pesticide, she said, “The technology is designed to control and attract Mediterranean flies, fruit flies, African flies, Mexican flies, Drosophila flies, lesser pumpkin flies, olive flies and mango flies.”

“In our company, we created all the proteins related to all types of flies separately. We also succeeded in designing a multifunctional amino acid. New amino acids, in addition to 19 left-handed single-chain free micromolecule amino acids, also enjoy the cability to repel insects,” Baradaran said.

In a relevant development earlier this year, a knowledge-based company in Iran was able to find an effective substitute for pesticides by designing and producing some new biological compounds.

This knowledge-based company operates in the field of plant medicine and the production of biological soil compounds and has managed to produce effective products that have become substitutes for pesticides over the past years.

“Our field of activity is categorized in two parts; firstly, we are engaged in the production of biological compounds that can replace pesticides (poisons). In fact, these biological compounds can be used in parts of the plants where using poisons to treat the plant diseases is not effective, such as root and crown-related diseases. Secondly, the company is active giving advice to farmers and providing counselling services to them on herbal medicine and herbal nutrition,” Mojtabi Moradzadeh Eskandari, managing director of the Iranian knowledge-based company said.

He further said how they carry out their projects, adding, “When we enter a farm, we first check what diseases the farm suffers from. Then, based on the diseases, we introduce and recommend biological compounds. In fact, biological compounds are living organisms that exist in the soil itself, but some soils are poor in terms of having these compounds, and we try to strengthen the soil by adding these compounds to the soil.”

He said that their substitute for pesticides and poisons can help the country a lot in terms of reducing 35 tons of unnecessary total consumption of poisons annually and saving the country a lot of money through preventing costly pesticides from being imported into the country.

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