Disinfection of topsoil, substrates and potting soils

Agrivap ou container ? : disinfection of topsoil substrates and potting soils

With SIMOX low-pressure steam generators, the principle is to heat the soil or substrate to a sufficiently high temperature to destroy the maximum number of parasites and weed seeds, while respecting the life of microorganisms that are useful to life.

Why use steam to disinfect topsoil, substrates and potting soils?

Why use low-pressure steam for disinfecting topsoil and also substrates such as potting soils and composts in vegetables, nurseries, horticulture and mushrooms?

Versatile, fast and effective: insects, larvae and pathogens of cryptogamic diseases are completely destroyed, while respecting the environment. Low-pressure steam is much more effective than increasingly selective chemical products. Low-pressure steam generators can be used to disinfect soils in a number of ways:

• a herbicide treatment,
• fungicide treatmen,
• a nematicide treatment,
• an insecticide treatment,
• treatment against viruses and bacteria.

With an Agrivap steam generator, you can meet environmental and organic farming requirements. 

A healthy and natural method: no toxic residues in the soil or in the harvested products. Soil disinfection by steam has a very important role to play in the fight against pollution and the return to a better biological balance.

Can be cultivated as soon as steam disinfection is complete.

The benefits of heat on farmland:

• Better assimilation of nutrients by the soil.
• Respect of all bacterial activity thanks to a temperature not exceeding 90°C.

Effects on germination, favourable action on plant balance and health:

• Much more developed root system
• Higher chlorophyll content.
• Regularity and lushness of vegetation.

100% weed control: steam cooks weed roots and seeds. No need to weed. 

Good to know

• On a farm, a steam generator pays for itself by eliminating the need for weeding.
• High-temperature superheated steam (180° to 210°) increases soil penetration speed and reduces disinfection time by around 20%, reducing costs..
• Combined with high thermal efficiencies, our steam generators have the lowest disinfection costs on the market.