Description:

AGRIVENTURE CALCIUM EDTA (often called edetate calcium disodium) is a synthetic compound that acts as a powerful metal-binding agent (chelator). It is primarily used in medicine to treat severe heavy metal poisoning, and in agriculture and food manufacturing to preserve quality and improve nutrient absorption.

Technical content: Calcium EDTA

Key Features & Benefits:

• Structural Plant Integrity: Calcium is a building block of plant cell walls. Chelated Calcium EDTA ensures the nutrient is easily absorbed to support strong cell membranes, promoting proper plant development and structural resilience.
• Prevention of Deficiency Disorders: It rapidly corrects and prevents common calcium deficiencies like blossom-end rot (in tomatoes and peppers), tip burn, and premature flower or bud drop.
• Enhanced Shelf Life: By maintaining fruit firmness and cell wall strength, Calcium EDTA extends the storage capacity and durability of agricultural produce during transportation, thus increasing commercial value.
• Improved Nutrient Efficiency: It aids in the uptake of other essential elements like ammonium, potassium, and phosphorus.
• Stress Tolerance: It helps make plants more resistant to physical damage, fungal/bacterial diseases, and environmental stress.

Crops suitability:

• Vegetables: Tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants (prevents blossom-end rot); leafy greens like lettuce and cabbage (prevents tip burn).
• Fruit & Tree Crops: Apples (prevents bitter pit), citrus, grapes, and strawberries (improves firmness and shelf-life).
• Field Crops: Cotton, maize, wheat, and pulses.

Commonly used for:

AGRIVENTURE CHELATED CALCIUM micronutrient fertilizer is primarily used to prevent and correct calcium deficiencies in plants, strengthen the plant cell walls and enhance crop quality. It is applied during rapid growth, flowering, and fruiting stages to improve the firmness and post-harvest shelf life of fruits and vegetables.

Mode of entry: Foliar Absorption & Root Absorption

Mode of action:

• Protection from Lockout: In typical agricultural soils, especially those with high pH, calcium ions readily form insoluble compounds. EDTA chelates the calcium ion to keep it in a highly bioavailable state.
• Enhanced Plant Uptake: The chelated complex remains electrically neutral and inert, allowing the nutrient to be easily absorbed by plant roots (via fertigation/soil application) or leaf stomata (via foliar spray).
• Systemic Mobility: Once absorbed, the Calcium EDTA complex translocate easily through the plant's vascular system, safely delivering the calcium to rapidly growing meristematic tissues and developing fruits.
• Nutrient Release: Upon reaching the target plant cells, the calcium is released for metabolic use, while the remaining EDTA molecule is naturally processed or broken down by the plant.

Mode of application: Foliar Spray, Fertigation / Drip Irrigation, Soil Drench / Root Application

Dose: 1.5 - 1.7 gm per 1 liter water or 25gm in 15-liter water