HEBEI MONBAND WATER SOLUBLE FERTILIZER CO., LTD. was founded in 2009, which is a water soluble fertilizer factory specialized in fertilizer R&D, production, marketing and Agricultural services. The factory is running 6 production lines for macro elements fertilizer, 2 production lines for secondary elements fertilizer, 3 lines for liquid fertilizer filling, fertilizer filling line for bucket, high shear micro granulation line, In-situ reaction coating line (polyurethane coating), tablet pressing line and so on. The annual production capacity is 200,000mt. Monband was listed on New OTC (Over the Counter) Market in 2017. Stock name shorted as: MONBAND, stock code: 872623.

MONBAND is high-tech enterprise and IFA (International Fertilizer Association ) member, recommended supplier by CAC. Monband obtains 5 national invention patents, and other 5 products registers REACH certificate. The trade mark “MONBAND ®” is registered at more than Madrid Agreement, EUIPO, South Africa, India, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, and Brazil. 

Could you please update the recent activities?

With the government policy announcement of agrochemical reducing and income increasing, MONBAND aims at long term development and begin to change its products structure. In the process of communicating with European customers, we all reach an agreement on the mainstream product of the future is microbiological fertilizer. Rational use of microbial fertilizers is benefit at less application of pesticides and fertilizer and reducing pollution at the same time. So we invest in bacillus fertilizer.

In recent years, we contribute a lot of resource on the project of silica solubilizing bacillus (Bacillus Aryabhattai). Base on this bacillus, we work on its theoretical research, production R&D and field application trails.

The project was began in 2017. In 2018 MONBAND cooperated with American Chinese Dr. Yaowei Kang the world-renowned microbiologist, and built R&D team specialized in silica solubilizing bacillus. The team devoted to project of selecting one or a class of bacillus strain, which should be unique, versatile and solubilized silica strongly. We collected 34 soil samples from 16 counties in 10 provinces in China. From samples we obtained more than 20,000 bacillus strains, there found 34 new generas and selected 206 bacillus strains with method of Enrichment Plate High-Throughput (So far, MONBAND has the world's largest library of silica solubilizing microbial strains). After confirmation, most of the stains were never reported before on its silica solubilizing ability. Instantly our team do a lot of safty experiments on 206 bacillus strains, like high temperature resistance, salt resistance, acid and alkali resistance, hemolysis safety, and testing like survival rate after mixing with the popular crop protection products, sporulation rate, stimulation of crop root growth and so on. Finally there came out one outstanding strain No. MB35-5, which we named as Bacillus Aryabhattai and will be marketed as a series of fertilizer product.

In October, 2019，Bacillus Aryabhattai was registered as Agrobacterials with a biomarker system, traceable.

In beginning of 2020, our outstanding discoveries was reported by a lot of national media like Xinhua News Agency, Peoples Daily, Science and Technology Daily and so on. Dated 20th March, 2020 the Seminar on Agricultural Applications of Silica Solubilization Bacillus was hold by China Agricultural Media and Monband Company.

Above is our study achievement.   

Microbial fertilizer is still quite new among Chinese planters, then how will you launch the market?

So far we already developed 4 kinds of Bacillus Aryabhattai. The application data on crops is accumulated through 115 field trails on 18 kinds of crop. The data suggests that after application of Bacillus Aryabhattai the thickness of the leaves is increased. That will benefit at photosynthesis and yield.

In 2020 we enhance field trails through synergy work among Crop Technology Dep., Marketing Dep., and Sales Dep. There will be 550 field trails on 22 other kinds of crops finished this year to study and discover the most efficient application technique on main crops. At the same time with the accumulation of trail data, the record is updated and new benefit is discovered. Seeing is believing, field trail is always the most direct way of marketing. In China large quantity of planters already learned the effect of Bacillus Aryabhattai. 

Nowadays the domestic market of microbial fertilizer has taken shape initially, but the share is still very low. That means there is very large market space we can develop. The Bacillus Aryabhattai is recorded in biomarker system. It is traceable and with plenty of data and theory supported. Bacillus Aryabhattai is not a ambiguous product. 

With such a new potential product, do you have any new plan on the company development?

We always keep development base on industry trend. In the first ten years, we keep high lever investment on R&D project. Every year 3% of total income is put into R&D department and get some fruit. In the following years, MONBAND will underline its strength on professional R&D team, advanced technology and processing capacity. The business develop in 4 fields: branding MONABND trademark internationally, expanding OEM and ODM service oh high level, cooperating with plantation and designing fertilizer package, and expanding supply chain trade. Build the world's leading microbial fertilizer factory.