2014 Glen Introducing Biotech

In Glen Biotech we share a dream, that biotechnology is not complicated and it is not only useful to go to the moon. It also helps us to solve a problem as real as the red palm weevil. The tradition of the rural world can be complemented with the scientific innovation developed in an universitary spin-off. We believe in the importance of all the elements. From the knowledge of the plants we treat and listening to the farmer that confronts the problem to taking care of the dreamers that form our team. Because we are all Glen Biotech except the red palm weevil. In Glen Biotech we believe in biologic and effective solutions where the biotechnological tools are the future to solve the problems in our gardens and crops this will allow us to end with the pests and diseases without creating new problems. We are a passionate young team that works with the necessary determination to bring to market the first sustainable and specific phytosanitary product against the red palm weevil an insect that is devastating the palm groves all around the world. Our product is a microscopic fungus Something that can't be seen and that eats the beetle from the inside. It can be found naturally in the field killing the insect and we produce it, in the right way, to treat the palms without using any water unlike the current products that need up to 30 litres of water per palm in each treatment. We use a solid formulate that stays active up to three months on the palm, unlike the current products that stay active only for 30 days. The fungus not only kills the red palm weevil, it doesn't harm other insects, it doesn't harm us and it doesn't generate any problem in the palm. Moreover, it activates the plant defences and makes it react to stress before the problem appears. Nowadays we collaborate with public and private entities to implement integrated management programs. This will enable us to say goodbye to the palms cemeteries on our coasts where the insect is causing havoc and is provoking devastating landscapes of plants with no leaves. Silent testimonies of a problem that we have created by importing palm trees bearing an insect that wasn't present in our land. The insect makes no difference between plant nurseries, gardens, residential áreas, schools or parks. All of them are but one more ingredient in its everyday free buffet. It just has to decide who it will attack today and how it will enter the plant. If this happens on the bottom part of the palm it can end up falling on us just like a tree in a forest that is being logged but without someone to warn us: Timber! This is a worldwide problem, from California, Europe, Emirates and Saudi Arabia to South-East Asia and we have a spanish solution, alicantinian and european to a pest that we all have.