JGDE. Goëmar Laboratories specialises in bioperformance technologies dedicated to the agricultural sector. Can you tell us about your company, its activities, and what exactly is bioperformance®?
Jean-Marie Joubert. The company «Laboratoires Goëmar» is installed for more than 40 years in Saint Malo. Creating around seaweed products, it is now centered on products used in agriculture.
The company joined the Arysta LifeScience Group in 2015, a group specialising in plant protection. At Arysta Lifescience, Goëmar, a specialist in Bioperformance technologies, develops, manufactures and markets Biocontrol products (Vacciplant, Carpovirusin, Ostrinil) and Biostimulants (GoActiv, registered in France agoronomic additive, seaweed filtrate based) in plants.
All products come from the natural environment, seaweed harvested in Bretagne, and microorganisms. These are products without classification of toxicity.
Biocontrol products help protect plants against insect attack or parasitic diseases. The Biostimulants products activate the biological processes of the plants which allow to decant the yields of the plants.
These technologies, combined with conventional solutions for the protection or nutrition of plants, make it possible to meet production valorisation objectives in line with regulatory and societal changes. They provide more food safety, environmental, more guarantee than the products sold separately, this is called the Responsible Agro-Performance.
JGDE. At a time when food production standards are singled out with the ratification of CETA, or the difficulties of banning glyphosate, what concrete solutions does a laboratory like Goëmar bring?
JMJ. The interest of being associated with an Agrochemical group allow to conventionnal products with Biocontrol products to reduce the toxicity of synthetic products.
Similarly for plant nutrition, the use of Biostimulants can stimulate the biological functions of plants and thus increase yields without additional fertiliser.
Integrating the Arysta Group gives us a greater perspective for developing our products. Where Goëmar sells its products in 40 countries, Arysta brings a bigger dimension with the possibility to develop them in more than 120 countries. Even if the regulatory will favourable to the products of Biocontrol and Biostimulants is different between the countries of the world, the impulse, especially in Europe is well launched.
JGDE. Your membership in the Arysta LifeScience group gives you an international dimension; what are the development projects you would like to present to us?
JMJ. To date, not all diseases or pests can be controlled by biocontrol products, for lack of solutions. The group therefore invests to formulate new products, both in innovative nutrition and plant protection through biocontrol products. Many projects are being developed in our laboratories, both in seed treatment and foliar protection.
Our Saint Malo laboratory actively contributes to this research in controlled conditions (phytotrons, greenhouses) and then in our experimental station at Beaulieu-sur-Layon.
Laboratoires Goëmar
Parc Technopolitain Atalante,
35435 Saint-Malo, France
Tél. : +33 (0)2 99 19 19 19
www.goemar.com
