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Agricultural outputs must go up if we are to feed a growing world population, this increase has been driven by ever increasing reliance on fertiliser and pesticide inputs with large increases in both over the last 50 years. This heavy reliance on inputs has led to environmental problems with water pollution, CO2 emissions and bee population collapse. Finding ways to continue agricultural outputs with a lower environmental impact will be a key challenge over the coming years.
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Levity ensure that the environment is at the heart of our product development, our research is helping us to dramatically reduce application rates of fertilisers by making them more efficient and environmentally stable. Our work on improving plant health is reducing the need for pesticides, and our work on quality and shelf life is reducing waste. Levity are fully committed to improving sustainability in agriculture.
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Levity use a unique combination of crop science and agronomy to find better ways to grow crops. Our scientists are researching how plant physiology can improve agricultural inputs to develop products that help farmers produce better yields.
Levity have world class research facilities split between two sites at Myerscough Agricultural College and Lancaster University. Our team of scientists enjoy unrivalled access to formulation and development labs, testing labs, controlled environment growth rooms, experimental glasshouses, field test sites and a huge array of analytical equipment.
What sets Levity apart is how we approach product development. We bridge academia and industry, taking the very latest in academic research and finding ways to put it to practical use to solve problems for farmers. Our products start on a farm where our expert agronomists take time to understand the challenges faced by growers, we then go back to the lab and apply crop science in research programmes. The products that emerge are tested around the world in rigorous independent trial programmes before we are finally ready to go back to the farm with a new product.
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