AgroaldeaORGANIC FARMERS OF MIDLANDS CONFIRM ITS EFFECTIVENESS.
The fight against the whitefly that affects virtually all of the planet causing serious damage to crops and the decline of the productions, It has generated a fight without quarter in which not everything is worth.
Agroaldea has known an initiative that organic farmers in the Midlands of Gran Canaria have been developing. During 16 months have verified as wormwood plant effective against whiteflies.
This group of farmers, It has been affected their crops in recent years by the whitefly. Eco mode that practice has done that they were to experience with biodynamic treatments. Absinthe has been, so far, the most effective.
The key lies in the absintiina, a Glycoside that contains a significant amount of the bitter principle, the absinthin, It is a sesquiterpene Lactone. In addition, the plant has an essential oil in which there is thujone, tuyol, proazuleno and phellandrene, among other components.
Essential oil, the thujone, It is very effective to ward off pesky insects, to even repel fleas and lice. But the greater deterrent effect corresponds to the absintiina. According to proven Midlands farmers is repellent, insecticide and fungicide.
Wormwood is a perennial plant, leaf silver on the underside, that reaches a height of 0,70 to 1 Metro. Just touching it already emits the aroma. However, his undeserved bad reputation relegated it to oblivion.
A bit of history
Wormwood Gets a drink known as the Absinthe. This was the great companion of poets and artists of the 19th and 20th centuries. Stories of madness which evokes so far, decadence and magic. Wormwood and its dark mystery seduce by danger, Although liquor is not dangerous.
His ban dates back to early 20th century, When a conspiracy fostered by producers and wine sellers who wanted to stop the popularity of absinthe was created.
They found the excuse in a crime committed by a Swiss to, drunk Absinthe, murdered his entire family in 1905. A year later, between the lobby and the bad press, Absinthe was banned in Europe and six years later in United States.
In the Decade of the 1990s was legalised in Europe and recently in United States, where have already created case bars and a large number of trademarks.
Back is the name of drink damn that enslaved her lovers, that led to Van Gohg suicide, He sentenced Paul Verlaine and that was the favorite drink of Degas and Toulouse Lautrec.