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Micro Dispensers for sustainable plant protection | Using mineral carriers for pheromones to apply the ecologically friendly mating disruption method for protecting crops against pests on a large scale

Summary
Over many years, Lithos developed and patented its Micro Dispenser Technology: A method, where specific pheromones (brand name “pherolit®”) are applied on a natural mineral as carrier. Lithos extracts and processes the high-quality mineral clinoptilolite-zeolite from its own source to optimize the unique properties in binding and releasing pheromones. For the application on the field, the pheromone of a particular pest is applied on fine-milled, treated zeolite and dispersed in water. The sprayable formulation can be used with any conventional spraying device. Using fully natural ingredients, the innovative technology provides efficient and safe plant protection.

This results in a unique set of advantages for customers:
- sprayable, easy to use & affordable
- safe for users
- slow release -> long term effect
- target specific, does not affect other organisms
- derived from nature, no harmful residues
- pests cannot develop resistancies
- suitable for conventional & organic farming
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Web resources: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/190164424
Start date: 01-12-2022
End date: 30-11-2024
Total budget - Public funding: 2 023 937,50 Euro - 1 366 312,00 Euro
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Original description

Over many years, Lithos developed and patented its Micro Dispenser Technology: A method, where specific pheromones (brand name “pherolit®”) are applied on a natural mineral as carrier. Lithos extracts and processes the high-quality mineral clinoptilolite-zeolite from its own source to optimize the unique properties in binding and releasing pheromones. For the application on the field, the pheromone of a particular pest is applied on fine-milled, treated zeolite and dispersed in water. The sprayable formulation can be used with any conventional spraying device. Using fully natural ingredients, the innovative technology provides efficient and safe plant protection.

This results in a unique set of advantages for customers:
- sprayable, easy to use & affordable
- safe for users
- slow release -> long term effect
- target specific, does not affect other organisms
- derived from nature, no harmful residues
- pests cannot develop resistancies
- suitable for conventional & organic farming

Status

SIGNED

Call topic

HORIZON-EIC-2022-ACCELERATOROPEN-01

Update Date

31-07-2023
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Horizon Europe
HORIZON.3 Innovative Europe
HORIZON.3.1 The European Innovation Council (EIC)
HORIZON.3.1.0 Cross-cutting call topics
HORIZON-EIC-2022-ACCELERATOR-01
HORIZON-EIC-2022-ACCELERATOROPEN-01 EIC Accelerator Open