Assessing the mitigation of environmental impacts and vegetable crop yield through plant growth promoters

近年来，农业部门一直面临着提高生产力的巨大压力，以养活不断增长的全球人口。与此同时，该部门正在设法有效地利用其资源，并减少其对环境和人类健康的影响。虽然可持续地提供食物是当今农场面临的最大挑战之一，他们依赖于使用农药和化肥来满足不断增长的需求，但新的环保举措，如天然植物生长促进剂（pgp）正在出现。pgp可对作物的农艺生理性状和非生物胁迫耐受性产生有益影响，提高养分利用效率和产品品质。bionnorth Solutions生产三种新的pgp，称为H5、PGP4和抗性菌株，可以通过减少合成农用化学品（例如农药和化肥）的使用来帮助提高农业生产系统的可持续性。虽然bionnorth Solutions已经进行了自己的实验，但他们缺乏商业园艺方面的专业知识，并希望了解他们应该如何将自己的产品定位于该领域。bionnorth Solutions正在寻求确定他们应该如何向商业园艺部门推销他们的产品，因为该产品具有减少农用化学品和提高产量的性能。博萨达尔大学和bionnorth Solutions之间的新伙伴关系的目标是对bionnorth Solutions的H5， PGP4和抗性菌株进行经济可行性研究，以将新产品商业化到加拿大的农业和农业食品部门。

In recent years, the agricultural sector has been facing significant pressure to increase productivity in order to feed the growing global population. At the same time, this sector is seeking to use its resources efficiently as well as reduce its impacts on the environment and human health. While providing food sustainably is one of the biggest challenges facing today's farms, who rely on the use of pesticides and fertilizers to meet the ever-growing demand, new environmentally friendly initiatives such as natural plant growth promoters (PGPs) are seeing the day. PGPs can have beneficial impacts on agronomic and physiological traits of crops and abiotic stress tolerance, and, improve nutrient use efficiency and produce quality. BioNorth Solutions manufactures three new PGPs known as H5, PGP4 and Resistance Strains that could help increase the sustainability of agricultural production systems through the reduction of synthetic agrochemicals use (e.g., pesticides and fertilizers). While BioNorth Solutions has conducted their own experiments, they lack expertise in commercial horticulture and would like to understand how they should position their product to the sector. BioNorth Solutions is seeking to identify how they should market their products to the commercial horticulture sector given the product's performance to reduce agrochemicals and increase yield. The objective of this new partnership between Collège Boréal and BioNorth Solutions is to conduct an economic feasibility study on H5, PGP4 and Resistance Strains for BioNorth Solutions to commercialize the new products to Canada's agricultural and agri-food sector.