Starting in 1995, farmers in California’s Salinas and Pajaro Valleys began losing thousands of acres of their lettuce crops each year. The culprit? Contamination among spinach seeds that spread to other crops.
Every year, between 20% and 40% of crops are lost to pests and disease worldwide before they leave farmers’ fields—costing the global economy $220 billion a year. But Clean Crop Technologies can remove up to 99% of contaminants thanks to cold-plasma technology.