Farming with DENBA has begun
DENBA is a next-generation freshness-preservation technology that keeps the water molecules in food active, holding produce at its peak. You fit a compact unit to the refrigerator or freezer you already use, and the DENBA effect works throughout that space. Premium fruit such as grapes and Shine Muscat stays juicy and good two months on. Processors supplying meat to supermarkets report drip loss cut by up to 95% when thawing meat and fish. Even an ordinary freezer can freeze without breaking down cell structure. DENBA is now being built into domestic refrigerators, commercial refrigerators, delivery trucks and shipping containers around the world.
DENBA GREEN takes that same technology - developed over years in food freshness preservation - and applies it upstream, in the field.
It forms an electric-potential field along a run of up to 100 metres, extending about 50 cm out from the line, supporting plant growth, holding back pest damage and improving the quality of what is harvested. DENBA's single-pole field, combined with a new cabled output stage, makes the unit fully waterproof, simpler to install and lighter at the output end. It covers a much wider area, costs less to deploy, and can now go into places that were previously out of reach. Greenhouses, open fields and hydroponics are all in scope.
Supporting crop growth
Why would DENBA support the growth of a crop?
This is still at the trial stage and we do not have conclusive evidence. The working explanation is the one described above: creating an electric potential in the space sets the water molecules inside the plant resonating. The cells resonate with them and become more active, and the plant as a whole follows - growing more strongly.
Holding back pest damage
In agriculture, pest control is the single most important issue. It arises because farming grows one or a small number of crops over a reasonably large area. In that environment, the small creatures that feed on them can multiply enormously. Among such animals, the ones that most often reach that state are the insects.
As a result, a grower can lose most of a crop to pests, and the control of pests has long been a central problem in agriculture - though for most of that time there were few means of doing it.
DENBA emits a wavelength matched to that of water molecules, and it is thought that this wavelength is what helps hold pests back.
Insects have an exceptional sense of danger and react to the slightest vibration or change around them.
DENBA creates an electric-potential space with a radius of about one metre, and the working theory is that to an insect this space behaves like a wall, making it harder to enter.
From chemical pest control to DENBA
According to FAO figures, China - the world's largest user of agricultural chemicals - applies about 13 kg per hectare of farmland. Japan applies 11.4 kg, which is not far behind. It is not widely known that Japan is, by this measure, among the heaviest users in the world.
The United States, often assumed to be a heavy user, applies about one fifth of Japan's figure. Brazil, which has expanded rapidly in recent years, applies about one third, and India about one thirtieth.
With a falling and ageing population, Japan's domestic market will shrink. Exporting agricultural produce is essential if the country is to remain a major economy. But exporting into markets with strict limits on agricultural chemicals means clearing those limits first - without that, there is no business to start.
If growth can be supported and pests held back without chemicals, a number of those problems become solvable at once.
Trials are running across a range of agricultural sectors
With the cooperation of growers, DENBA is now in use in the field, and reports are coming back.
Higher yields. Better drying quality. Better flavour. These are the kinds of comments we hear from growers using DENBA across Japan.
DENBA wants to change primary industry across Japan - and beyond it.
If this is work you would like to be part of, we would like to hear from you.
info@denba.jp