NUTRILITE™ supplements and farming procedures
Crops used for NUTRILITE supplements are grown using organic & sustainable farming methods instead of harmful pesticides, herbicides or chemical fertilisers, we let nature do the work. These methods are more costly in monetary terms but offer enormous advantages to the earth and environment and to the NUTRILITE product.
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Pest Control
- Ladybirds and green lacewings are released into the fields to help control crop-eating pests
- Predatory birds such as hawks, help control crop-destroying birds and rodents
- Solar powered bird guards transmit bird distress signals and strips of reflective material create bright flashes that startle and deter birds
Weed Control
- Soil solarisation is a technique that involves covering irrigated and prepared planting beds with plastic and, under powerful sunlight, the intense heat in the soil destroys weeds and weed seeds, leaving the field ready for planting
- Intercropping is the planting of two crops together, to stop weeds growing and provide nutrition to the soil
- Flame weeding is where a focussed flame of more than 1000 degrees centigrade is brought through the fields to burn weeds prior to the planted crop germinating
- Grazing livestock between plantings reduces weeds and enrich the soil with biological nutrients
Soil Management
- Crop rotation helps control the population of many destructive pests and diseases, and restores nutrients to the soil
- Nutrient-rich organic compost is used
- ‘Green manure’ crops, for example clover and vetch, are grown and ploughed back into the soil to increase nutrients and improve the soil structure
- Earthworms enrich the soil as they ingest, decompose and deposit casts continuously
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