IGEBA- Testimonials

Benefits of the Unipro40T

Labour saving , better working conditions , more frequent applications , more efficient use of staffing, fast return on investment in capital , very responsive & fast response from Igeba staff on trouble shooting and problem solving.

90% of pesticide applications are now undertaken by the Unipro with the last 10% being spot treatments so  we are saving a lot of Euros on labour.

For too long we as a company were trying to coordinate pesticide applications around dispatch teams whish was always difficult but became close to impossible towards the end , this is eliminated with the Unipro.

Programmes now run at night with no risk to staff also when applications go on at night the vents are closed so reduced risk to bees and native pollinators.

We can now achieve even distribution and correct volume applications that was difficult to achieve when applying using a boom sprayer sop calibration is 100% each and everytime.

We grow in polytunnels with no heat and during the winter months struggled to continue fortnightly applications due to factors such as temperature , high humidity , lack of drying and also short days just made the hard work very hard work  , using the unipro means applications use 90% less water and whole structures can be trated in a very fast and efficient manner. We have noticed an improvement in th equality of the plants all round and are still learning the whole time.

I thought our pesticide bill would increase as we now treat the whole structure at a time but after going back over the last 3 years our pesticide bills are actually lower than what they were in the past.

The unipros have very quickly become an invaluable part of our business growing model , the investment that was made was justified and the more we use them the faster our return as the labour is now gone on having 2 men spraying the tunnels on weekends & bank holidays or starting work at 05.00am during the summer months.

Foggers running every 10 days , no heating & all cold house production , as all growers know its the over wintered long crops that are the most fraught with difficulty , having being potted in July the product cycle is long with many obstacles to be navigated across multiple growing seasons spanning late summer  – Autumn – through to winter and spring the following calendar year.

2022/2023: we are through our second winter now and the crops are of exceptional quality again , it has been a longer , colder and wetter winter than the last one and the crops are still at the upper limits of what would be expected  for this type of cold house production.

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