Soil disinfection

Agrivap : Soil preparation and disinfection

With SIMOX low-pressure steam generators, the principle is to bring the soil to a sufficiently high temperature to destroy the maximum number of parasites and weed seeds while respecting the life of micro-organisms useful to your crops..

Why steam for soil preparation and disinfection?

Why use low-pressure steam for soil disinfection, but also for disinfecting substrates such as potting soils and composts in vegetable gardening, nurseries, horticulture and mushroom growing?

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 for soil disinfection have a number of effects:

• 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.