Humic and fulvic acids
Essential for soil health
Humic substances, such as humic and fulvic acids, are fundamental for soil health as they help retain structure, water and nutrients, all of which are necessary for optimal plant growth. Additionally, humic substances feed plant-beneficial microbes.
These microbes play a vital role in nutrient recycling and availability, defence against plant pathogen and the secretion of bio-stimulants. However, modern agricultural practices, for example intensive monoculture, excessive tillage and the use of synthetic fertilisers, deplete the soil of organic matter, particularly humic substances.
This degrades the soil’s structure, leads to leaking of water and nutrients and starves the beneficial microbes. On degraded soils, plants not only grow poorly, but also become more susceptible to the weather and pathogens.
So, as to restore soil fertility, it is of utmost importance to reintroduce humic substances in the soil, which is what our products do.
Highly effective soil improvers
Humic substances are divided into three categories: fulvic acids, humic acids and humins. Fulvic and humic acids, both water-soluble fractions, are particularly important as they release plant bio-stimulants, which enhance plant growth and resilience. These are the fractions we extract and use in our products.
Ecofarma World’s humic and fulvic acids are especially abundant in phytohormones (plant hormones) such as auxins, cytokinins, jasmonates and phenolic phytohormones. These bioactive compounds promote stronger root and shoot growth, improve nutrient uptake and enhance plant resilience to stress.
This makes our products highly effective as soil improvers and bio-stimulants but also as blending ingredients in conventional fertilisers, improving the efficiency of nutrient use and contributing to long-term soil health.
Humic substances also improve cation exchange capacity (CEC) and microbial activity, which play a crucial role in nutrients cycling and their availability to plants.
Our mission
Preventing soil degradation and restoring farmland fertility
Reintroducing humic and fulvic acids, essential for soil health
Promoting healthier livestock, reducing the carbon footprint