WHAT IS NEREA?
NEREA® is a revolutionary material and method of direct crop and plant agronomy, offering a superior alternative to the well-known hydroponics technique. NEREA® can be thought of as “solid-state hydroponics”. With only the addition of water into the solid-state NEREA® growth medium, plants will grow for multiple cycles, without the need for any additional nutrient control infrastructure such as: circulating pumps, sophisticated sensors, and/or complicated control and monitoring systems.
NEREA® begins with the naturally-occurring mineral clinoptilolite zeolite. To transform clinoptilolite zeolite into a complete hydroponic plant-growing medium, the zeolite's network of interconnected tunnels and cages is treated and modified, loading it with nitrogen and potassium and combining it with other compounds containing phosphorous, and calcium – the ‘major nutrients’ – as well as a complete suite of minor and trace nutrients. The zeolite holds the nutrients inside its porous structure which are slowly automatically released based on the plants needs. Indeed, the plant itself does the regulating.
According to Derek Shulze of Niagara College: “NEREA® performs remarkably well as a nutrient. Our crops matured more quickly, likely owing to the fact that NEREA® stores nutrients in a freely accessible format plants can pull from on demand, resulting in an optimal growth rate — we effectively reduced the total crop time by at least 1-2 weeks. This would represent a substantial improvement for a commercial producer looking to produce more crops per year.”
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