Agriculture

The global agriculture market is expected to rise from just under $10 trillion in 2019/20 and reach just over $12 trillion by 2025. It is known that Molecular hydrogen and oxygen availability in soil has plant growth-promoting properties. Furthermore, molecular hydrogen soil treatment will lead to further development of microbiota diversity within the soil, thus improving the overall health, fertility and disease resistance potential while promoting plant growth simultaneously. The ascendancy of bacterium further promotes the formation of complex biofilms in the soil, enabling carbon sequestration into the soil from the atmosphere. This has enormous implications when considering the regeneration of lost productive farmland and can significantly ameliorate further destruction of existing stressed pastures and ecosystems.

There is an immense potential associated with hydrogen and oxygen biology technology, and it presents viable solutions to advance government objectives in several of the key areas associated with feeding the world. This technology will not only assist in the volume of goods produced, but also the quality of the goods, the post-harvest lifespan, the nutritional content, the ability to better resist environmental events, the ability to better resist biological attack, and significantly improve reputations as a preferred product of choice. Further to this, hydrogen and oxygen supplementation applications demonstrate remarkable improvements in drought tolerance, salinity resistance, dis-ease resistance, lower water allocation requirements, improved soil life and more robust, healthier livestock. It is expected that the technology will offer more products with greater nutritional content, at a higher price, with less risk.

It is understood that consumers of the future will want to know more about where their food has come from and that they will want Hydrogen based farming certifications similarly to what we see in the “Organically Certified” spaces. The technology affords significant value towards farm biodiversity certification and carbon capture schemes, will set new standards worldwide, and give farmers and enterprises considerable advantage and preference throughout the global marketplace. Current evidence suggests significant benefits and advancement for live export, red meat, white meat, seafood and plant industries alike. The global meat, poultry and seafood market is expected to grow from around $1.4 trillion in 2020 to just under $2 trillion in 2025.

Improving yields and decreasing losses is a focus of all agricultural enterprises, which is now more critical than ever before. Since molecular hydrogen supplementation can result in the production of ATP decoupled from the nutrient intake, more energy can be invested into growth without an increase in nutrient intake. It is why, for example, molecular hydrogen supplementation is associated with an improvement in food conversion ratio, and improved plant growth.

Clean, natural and completely organic in every sense, molecular hydrogen and oxygen supplementation allows crops, animals and produce to grow in otherwise unproductive soil – allowing millions of hectares of farmland to re-enter the market and contribute to addressing the emerging global issues surrounding food security. The biological improvement that can be achieved in this sector has many consequential benefits to the market, including further health benefits to the consumer accessing higher quality protein sources with less pharmaceutical or chemical inputs.

Attractive research opportunities include plant protein, Dairy, animal protein, disease resistance, soil biodiversity, carbon capture, environmental repair, water management, soil regeneration, salinity resistance, drought tolerance, post-harvest ripening, and extreme weather event resistance and recovery, amongst others.

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