UV Boosting offers a solution by stimulating plant natural defenses through UV-C flashes. This triggers a defense mechanism in plants, making them more resistant to pathogens even before their appearance.

By enhancing plant defenses, UV Boosting aims to reduce the reliance on fungicides and minimize damage caused by pathogens & other abiotic stresses like spring frost or drought.

UV Boosting’s equipment offers also a flexible treatment rate, allowing growers to adjust the intensity of UV-C flashes based on specific crop requirements and disease pressure.

In conjunctions with UV Boosting, Kubota is testing sustainable alternatives to chemicals and empowering growers to protect their crops effectively while promoting environmentally friendly farming practices

Nowadays UV Boosting offers the solution specialized for vineyards, which Kubota dealers and clients in Italy (Brescia area) and France (Anjou) are testing in 2024. However, the adaptable nature of the equipment allows it to be applied to various other crops where fungal pathogens pose a significant threat. Company has on its roadmap also prototypes for orchards, strawberries & greens (as golf courses).

The Kubota Inter-row Cultivator provides complete flexibility for large-scale use in all conditions. Its modular design allows for adjustment to various crops, ranging from 12.5cm row spacing for cereals to 80cm for row crops like maize, sugar beet, and vegetables. Stable parallelograms and working tools of the Kubota inter-row cultivator ensure precise and consistent results, even at high working speeds.

With adaptable equipment, flexible treatment UV flashes rates, and compatibility with various agricultural machines, UV Boosting empowers growers to protect their crops effectively.

1. Easy to use application
2. Alternative to chemicals
3. Implement mounted on narrow tractors
4. 4-7 treatments over the season
5. Reduce engine speed
6. During day or night time
7. Equipment pay back in less than 1 year

Minimize crop damage due to pathogens & climate events like drough and frost.

7. Secure yields for vine, fruits & other crops
8. Reduction of drought impact (+22% in yield) in vineyards
9. Reduction of downy mildew (-59%) in vineyards

Kubota’s clients applied 4-7 treatments during the season to evaluate the technology impact on the yield results as well as the overall effectiveness on the trees’ health state. According to experts and backed by scientific evidence, UV Boosting solution secures the yield for organic, biodynamic and conventional wine growers.

Treatments provide short exposure to proprietary UV sources on plants. Activated plant metabolism works after: plants experience a peak of Salicylic Acid production. It has been proven that salicylic acid is a key plant hormone required for establishing resistance to many pathogens. As a result, plant reacts to biological or physical threats much more efficiently and rapidly.

Wine growers confirmed less yield losses due to hydric stress or fungal diseases. For example, proven agronomical validation within season 2022 in Bordeaux shown the reduction of drought impacting on yield (+22% in yield) and results in €4.9k revenue savings/ha for vineyard.

The UV Boosting Helios implements can be easily mounted on standard (narrow) tractors and straddle tractors for application in vineyards. Treatments are conducted at the tractor‘s speed of 4 km/h.

Those treatments have no residue in the environment and no impact on biotope.