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<div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5443/A.wav' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Tech Companies Develop New Technologies for Crops' data-article-id='6033'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='15417'>Technology companies are raising hundreds of millions of dollars to develop farm products that use microbes and seaweed to grow crops. </span> <span data-start-time='15417' data-end-time='29958'>The move comes at a time when fertilizer prices are very high and increased attention is being paid to how food is produced around the world.</span> <span data-start-time='29958' data-end-time='45875'>Microbes, including fungi and viruses, have been available for years as treatments to protect plants from insects and disease, with mixed results. </span> <span data-start-time='45875' data-end-time='59000'>But developers are increasingly using them as natural ways to support crops while keeping up crop production levels.</span> <span data-start-time='59000' data-end-time='66021'>The new microbial fertilizers are sometimes called biostimulants. </span> <span data-start-time='66021' data-end-time='83021'>Such products could help farmers use less nitrogen  a fertilizer that can pollute waterways and create nitrous oxide, a gas that has environmental effects. </span> <span data-start-time='83021' data-end-time='96063'>Canada wants to cut fertilizer emissions by 2030, while the European Union aims to reduce fertilizer usage.</span> <span data-start-time='96063' data-end-time='104979'>Denmark-based Novozymes is one of the biggest sellers of biological agriculture products. </span> <span data-start-time='104979' data-end-time='116854'>One product contains a fungus that grows alongside plant roots and releases phosphate, a crop nutrient, from the soil. </span> <span data-start-time='116854' data-end-time='126604'>Yara International of Norway says its biostimulants are based on seaweed and other substances.</span> <span data-start-time='126604' data-end-time='147063'>Another product from the startup Pivot Bio has microbes that take in sugar from the roots of corn, wheat, or sorghum plant, producing an enzyme that changes nitrogen to ammonia, a crop nutrient.</span> <span data-start-time='147063' data-end-time='155063'>The California-based company says farmers use it on more than 400,000 hectares. </span> <span data-start-time='155063' data-end-time='163250'>It has also raised $430 million last year from investors.</span> <span data-start-time='163250' data-end-time='180167'>AgFunder said investments in biostimulant and crop control products have more than doubled in 2021 from the previous year, to $777 million. </span> <span data-start-time='180167' data-end-time='195354'>And Rabobank expects the $3 billion biostimulants industry to grow by 12 to 15 percent each year over the next five years.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img src='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5443/A.jpeg'/></div></div><div id='question-content' style='display:none;'><div class='vocabulary_question question-container' 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data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5443/little_fungus.wav'><span>little fungus</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5443/macroeconomics.wav'><span>macroeconomics</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5443/seaweed.wav'><span>seaweed</span></div></div></div><div class='sentence_completion_question question-container' data-question-id=18403 data-hint-location='147063' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5443/the_californiabased_company_says__blank__use_it_on_more_than_400000_hectares_.wav'>The California-based company says <span class='blank'>farmers</span> use it on more than 400,000 hectares. </div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='farmers'><div class='choice' 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