PRESENTATION

The GEOLIFE® technology is based on precise specifications that are completely different from those used in conventional chemical systems. GEOLIFE® ‘s underlying concept is that, it is the agricultural soil, before the plant, that produces the fruit.

It is a complex laboratory formed by microorganisms that support the soil’s microbiology, which consists of minerals, organic components, colloids, siliceous fractions, nutritional components, N-P-K (Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Potassium), fundamental elements for the life of the plant.

The humus (earth), a set of organic decomposed substances of vegetal, animal or bacterial origin present in the soil which represents an amorphous, colloidal substance containing in average 2% of nitrogen.

The humus, a complex element that owes its peculiarity to the soil’s organic substance, is the vital basis that collects all the above-mentioned elements. An impoverishment or an imbalance of humus can inevitably compromise agricultural production.

PROCEDURE

The GEOLIFE® inoculant interacts directly in the protosoil, an organic substrate, formed partially by bacterial and fungal activity, which accumulates gradually in the soil creating heterogeneous aggregates of different sizes of humic material rich in nutrients.

Bearing this in mind, GEOLIFE® , which is a scientific concept of agronomy in a broad sense, establishes the basis for performance and development of a modern and potentially unequalled agriculture aimed at fulfilling the market’s exponential demand for clean and chemical-free food with standardized and guaranteed bio quality.

GEOLIFE® ‘s agricultural division consists of four different stages that are interconnected according to the basic concept, which states that:

phase 1		agricultural soil		first production element
phase 2		plant		second production element
phase 3		photosynthesis		third production element
phase 4		plant protection		fourth production element

PHASE 1

treatment
	The first treatment to be called GEOLIFE® HUMIFICATING COMPOUND is a real and authentic soil amendment. To amend means to correct, and GEOLIFE® applies this method in all anomalies of agricultural soil with a powerful and effective proliferation of bacteria and enzymes by means of inoculation. The consequent microbal activity, which leads to the production of the specific enzyme for the protein synthesis and the relative soil metabolic activity, sets off the disgregation of the complex substance transforming it into a simple and assimilable substance that can then be transported as an active element into the plant’s food chain.
composition
	The GEOLIFE® amendment consists of a bacterial-enzymatic mix with antagonistic fungi, ferments, zeolites, algae lithotamnium calcareum. It is supplied in lyophilized form, a cellular drying process (water is extracted from the bacterial cell), and the bacterial activity is stabilized and ready for the production of the specific enzyme. The enzymes coupled with the microorganisms that can be found in the GEOLIFE® range are mostly hydrolytic H.O.C. (Hydrolytic Organic Catalysts). Lipoproteins, sugars, vitamins and other co-enzymes set off the total bacterial-enzymatic actitvity that forms GEOLIFE®. Subsequently this activity is strengthened by a liquid booster mainly composed of long carbon chains and subjected to the bio-physical process according to the “E.B.O. Energy System” method. This liquid, with its oligodynamic features, activates and boosts the activity and the product’s bacterial proliferation. With regard to the fixation of nitrogen, it can be compared to the action produced by flavodoxin, a flavoprotein that carries the electrons and can be found in Rhizobium cells. In its reduced form it acts in the fixation of nitrogen and supplies the catalysed reaction of nitrogenase with the relative reducing agents. It is a multienzymatic aggregate that can be found in micoorganisms and it is capable of fixing nitrogen by catalysing the reduction of elementary nitrogen into ammonium ion.
objective
	The application of GEOLIFE® in agriculture stimulates, develops and multiplies the various microbial colonies present in agricultural soil, which are often or almost always inhibited by an excessive use of organic and chemical fertilizers, heavy metals and various molecules of pesticides and herbicides that can be found in high concentration in the soil. GEOLIFE® boosts both the plant’s and the soil’s immune and antagonistic defense systems thanks to its biological action and thus contributes energetically to a natural way of protecting the soil, plants and fruit from diseases that are usually the result of an inadequate agricultural production in terms of quantity and quality. The fungi contained in the GEOLIFE® mixtures carry out an important antagonistic action against pathogenic fungi, especially the Trichoderma herzianum efficient in a vast range of pathogenic fungi, expressed by biolocically active secondary metabolites, produced particularly by the Thricoderma SPP. The antagonist reaction is activated on a vast range by parasite fungi. The active substance is the "6-pentyl-alpha-pyrone" (6PAP) produced by the Trichoderma Viride, which totally blocks the germination of the parasite’s conids. These are asexually produced spores in the ascomycete, basidiummycete and deuteriumycete fungi, intended to be dipersed in the air to originate a new mycelium. The conids are exogenous spores and are produced at the tip of hyphae individually or in small chains. This blockage reaction produced by the “6-pentyl-alpha-pyrone”, can be verified by identifying and analizing secondary metabolites produced by the Trichoderma SPP. In agricultural crops treated with the GEOLIFE® Chemical Free biological systems it is often possible to gain control of several diseases that can cause irreversible damage to the agricultural production with disastrous economic consequences for the companies. Mycorrizha, also known as fungus root, present in the GEOLIFE® line is a mutual symbiontic association between the hyphae of certain superior fungi and the roots of a superior plant. This association improves the effectiveness of the absorption of nutrients from the soilI. Mycorrizha ectotrofica (ectomycorrhiza) remain on the outside of the root’s cortical cells forming a mantle on the root’s surface as on pine trees. Mycorrizha endotrofica (endomycorrhiza) penetrate in the host root cortical cells without altering their vitality. Many microorganisms composing GEOLIFE® , inhibit heavy metals by means of chelating action (coordination bond that can tie one or more metal atoms thus forming a cyclical structure) and a bio-catalytic action that tends to repress the liberation and the availability of heavy metals in the plant’s nutritional phase. In modern agriculture there is a relentless tendency to limit the use of chemical products. Particularly in organic farming the use of such components is not allowed. GEOLIFE® is a true alternative to the use of chemical fertilizers and treatments. Its application leads to agricultural production with a high standard of food safety with biological organoleptic and qualitative features demanded by today’s world market.

PHASE 2

treatment
	The second treatment of the GEOLIFE® technology is the booster-fertilizer called BIOCATALYST.
composition
	It is an oligodynamic product formed by elements and active principles of organic nature. Even in minimum quantities it carries out specific functions in an organism.
objective
	Its task within our concept is to boost the transportation of the nutrients which have been previously transformed by the amendment to the plant and then to the fruit. GEOLIFE® - BIOCATALYST activates the plant’s metabolism and phenology in a bio-energetic way. Besides accelerating/slimming down the production stages, it also boosts its spontaneous self-defense by triggering those biological mechanisms that are responsible for the health of the fruit. The basis of the fertilizer-booster is composed of humic elements, such as humic acid, fulvic acid, crenic acid, combined and associated with nitrogen-fixing elements (microorganisms) “N”, organic carbon “C”, organic phosphorus “P”, organic potassium “K”, magnesium, calcium and other mineral salts obtained by means of hydro alcoholic solution and successive concentration with a rotating evaporator (ROTOVAPOR) or with the S.F.E. “Supercritical Fluid Extraction” system. Namely with Co2 used as a solvent replacing the chemical solvents or hydrocarbons generally used for the chemical synthesis with plant and vegetable extracts rich in these elements, which boost the natural bio-availability of the active principles.

PHASE 3

treatment
	The third GEOLIFE® System treatment.
composition
	It is a foliage fertilizer which can be defined a PHYTOSTIMULATOR, composed of vitamins, phytoproteins, flavonoids macro and micronutrients, amino-acids and other components of pure organic nature.
objective
	These elements boost the photosynthesis activity and its balance and at the same time control the agronomic anomalies caused by phytostress/plant stress, which can be the result of excessive rainfalls, anomalous thermal shocks or prolonged drought periods.

PHASE 4

treatment
	As far as plant protection is concerned, the GEOLIFE® System research has developed a series of organic disease-protection products.
composition
	Of organic origin, namely composed of oligodynamic elements based on aminochelates, phytoproteins, flavonoids, amino-acids, etc.
objective
	They interact directly within the protection system of the plant (plant’s diseases), of the soil (nematosis) and the fruit. It is a complement of the first pre-protective “amendment” mentioned above and permits a drastic reduction and even the total replacement of elements that are considered to be toxic for the environment and the consumer.

CONCLUSION

In conclusion it can be said that the GEOLIFE® technology, which is wrongly presented as a simple fertilizer, leads to confusion and wrong information among technicians when compared to conventional fertilizing systems.

The standardized GEOLIFE® System biological technology must be interpreted as a new agricultural system for the following production types: Bioquality "Chemical Free" or Quality-integrated production.

GEOLIFE® was conceived and produced with the aim of exclusively obtaining a high and undisputed quality standard concerning fruit and vegetable and agricultural crops with a high organoleptic component, fruit size close to uniformity, non existent health-threatening molecules and substances in the final produce, no environmental impact.

OTHER PRODUCTS

GEOLIFE® line, besides leading to a Bio-quality production ”Chemical Free” agriculture with the product range for ecology, zootechnics, and agrifeeding, makes it possible to complete one’s environmental concept in an imperative and undisputed way.

The GEOLIFE® range also offers standardized products that can be applied in civil and industrial water purifiers, public and private waste dumps, storage and compost sites of organic waste materials to be transformed and stabilized. »»

FURTHER INFORMATION

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