National agricultural award

Orica Watercare’s Remediation business has been awarded the prestigious Technology and Innovation Award for the Landguard technology at the annual Agribusiness Awards for Excellence.

The award recognises innovation of high value to the customer and demonstrated high potential profitability through successful adoption.

Landguard claims it is a world first for the rapid treatment of pesticide residues. Through hydrolysis of the pesticide, it creates by-products of significantly reduced toxicity and greater biodegradability that the parent pesticide.

Commercial manager of the remediation business Kate Dawson believes this product is of great importance to the agricultural industry, at a time when environmental issues such as water quality are critical.

“Landguard provides a real opportunity for on-farm best practice management to treat contaminated soil and water,” Dawson said.

“Organophosphate compounds can take years to break down naturally and can cause great environmental harm.”

The benefits of using this technology include reduced environmental impact, lower risk to human health and the reduced public liability of the greater agricultural industry.

Landguard has global opportunities for use in agriculture, sports turf and land remediation markets.

For further information, visit www.orica-landguard.com.