During the project, over 20.000 samples have been collected from 44 different countries and 105 different crops. The initial microbiome analysis platform has been successfully expanded and it can now work with any soil and any crop. This has been achieved thanks to the establishment of 7 classes of pilots including samples from a wide variety of crops and climate diverse areas. We have also integrated new sequencing platforms and adapted cloud computing. This has allowed to grow our microbe sequence database.
We have established an international commercial network and put in place a licensing system that allows our partners to perform the wet lab soil sample analysis and deliver the results of the BeCrop products analysis. We have formed commercial alliances with partners such as Agroestrategias, Disagro, Bayer, Perleuve, Pioneer Ecoscience, among others. This third-party companies are enabled to use our API to get the data in their own computing systems, visual platforms etc.
Main results achieved during the project are the following:
• Collection of 22.295 soil samples from 105 different crops in 44 different countries.
• 183 different agreements have been signed during project execution under the initiative Fields4Ever
• Integration in Global Soil Laboratory Network (GLOSOLAN – FAO) and the International Network on Soil Biodiversity (NETSOB)
• 7 specific impact topics on interest:
o Management practices
o Bio stimulants effects over crops
o Terroir and soil characterization
o Soil health status
o Diseases and soil pollution
o Carbon sequestration
o Increasing production
• Validation of the potential of commercial collaborations with agro-players like Bayer
• BeCrop® website and fields4ever initiative website.
• BeCrop® Brochure, demo report, report manual and an onboarding guide done
• Up to +50 publications across countries to promote BeCrop® technology
• 3 directly related scientific publications
• New IP family linked with the BeCrop® development
