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The European Biostimulants Industry Consortium (EBIC) was formed in June 2011 to foster the role of the biostimulants sector in helping agriculture to produce more with less. To do this, EBIC advocates an operating environment that creates a truly European market for biostimulants and recognises their contribution to sustainable agricultural production, green innovation, economic growth and other European Union (EU) policy objectives. Membership is open to biostimulant producers active in Europe interested in cooperating in areas of common interest.

Agricultural biostimulants include diverse formulations of compounds, substances and other products that are applied to plants or soils to regulate and enhance the crop’s physiological processes, thus making them more efficient. Biostimulants act on plant physiology through different pathways than nutrients to improve crop vigour, yields, quality and post-harvest shelf life/conservation. Crop biostimulation is complementary to crop nutrition and crop protection.

EBIC fights to ensure farmer access to safe and effective biostimulants

EBIC advocates a claims-based regulation for biostimulants to ensure safety and consumer protection while fostering the innovation that will help keep European agriculture productive while increasing its sustainability. EBIC suggests taking many best aspects of efficacy and safety from existing EU Regulations and incorporating them into a new, adapted approach that focuses on what matters most: giving farmers and other end users a choice of effective and safe products that allow them to grow crops and other plants ever more sustainably. Read more.

EBIC in the news

Members of the European biostimulants sector now have a voice thanks to the creation of EBIC. View the media coverage of our creation.