Do you know where your next meal is coming from? Chances are, some of it derives from plants—fruits, vegetables, coffee, wine, breads, and cereals.
Initial nutrient price isn’t the only—or the best—way to determine the value of the borates you choose for your blends. The question isn’t which borates are least expensive, but what is the
true cost of using cheap mineral borates?
Agricultural industrialization in the mid-1900s led to increased output but took a harmful toll on precious resources. Today, farmers big and small across the globe are looking for ways to adopt sustainable agriculture practices that allow them to grow more high-quality food using fewer, well-managed resources.
Rio Tinto provides centralized resources and information about crop nutrition, soil health, and advances in agriculture that are helping to feed the world’s growing population today and sustain food supplies into the future.
Crop quality directly affects the quality of human nutrition. Boron plays an important role in both.
As the world population grows, soil conservation becomes increasingly critical to expanding our ability to provide a healthy food supply.
For many years, medical experts have urged us to take boron supplements to help stave off one of the afflictions of old age: osteoporosis. This condition makes bones lose calcium, weaken, and become easily susceptible to fracture. Learn how a micronutrient supports bone health.
Even as the market for cocoa expands, Indonesian cocoa farms are struggling to build their crops and profits. The Community Solutions International (CSI) program Cocoa Care provides training and resources to help Indonesian cocoa farming families turn their farms into profitable, sustainable businesses. Rio Tinto Borates is pitching in to help farmers learn how boron can boost cocoa yields.
Plants get the boron they need from soil and water. In fact, they can't live without it. For humans, experts agree that boron is nutritionally important, and mounting evidence suggests that boron may be an essential element for our diet as well.