Up to 40%
of global crop production is still lost
The FAO estimates that plant pests and diseases destroy up to 40% of global crop production every year, despite rising input use.
Biological intelligence · Low Pesticide Agriculture
Most fields don't need more spray. They need the biology they're missing.
Precision Plant Treatment, empowered by AI.
Biodivera finds beneficial microbes in tropical soils, builds them into treatments a grower can actually pour, and uses field data to decide which treatment, what dose, and when to apply it.
Blok C-14 · Citrus · N. Sumatra
Biodivera Intelligence
High confidence
Integrated Fruit Fly Management
Fruit fly suppression · Aspergillus and Colletotrichum antagonists · canopy and root zone
1.2 LDose / ha
−31%Pesticide cost
06:10Best time today
Compatible with current fertiliser program ✓
500+ haCommercial citrus under a Biodivera microbiome program in North Sumatra.
40% → 25%Symptomatic trees in blocks monitored for fruit fly attack and fungal disease from Aspergillus sp. and Colletotrichum sp.
10Indonesian provinces where citrus businesses have requested quotations.
PaidParticipating farms paid for the deployment. Replicated trials are still running.
01 · The problem
Spraying went up. Losses didn't come down.
Most treatment decisions are still made by calendar, by habit, or by the time a symptom is visible. That is usually after the yield is already gone. Growers pay for the input twice: once at purchase, once in lost fruit.
Over $220B
lost to plant disease annually
Plant diseases cost the global economy more than $220 billion each year. Invasive insects add at least $70 billion on top of that.
3.73M tonnes
of pesticide active ingredient in 2023
Global agricultural pesticide use reached 3.73 million tonnes of active ingredients in 2023, roughly double the 1990 level.
The chemical isn't the broken part. The decision is.
02 · How it works
Start with a plant that's already winning. Find out what it has.
Most companies begin with a soil sample or a finished product. We begin with variation in the field: the trees that stay healthy while their neighbours don't. Then we work backwards to the biology responsible, and forwards to a treatment a grower can use this season.
STEP 01
Find the biological outliers
Field phenotyping, imaging and crop-performance records locate trees that stay productive and resilient while the block around them declines. Those outliers tell us where useful biology is already at work.
Output: a shortlist of trees worth sampling
STEP 02
Read the soil, the roots, the pathogen
Root-zone and soil samples go to sequencing. We profile the microbiome, confirm whether the limiting problem is actually biological, and identify which microbial functions matter here: immunity, phosphorus solubilisation, root health, pathogen suppression.
Output: a named function, not a data dump
STEP 03
Build the consortium
We characterise the candidates, screen for compatibility, and formulate a single strain or a stable consortium into a liquid product. It ships in a bottle, mixes with the existing program, and needs no new equipment.
Output: a product, not a laboratory report
STEP 04
Apply, measure, then correct the model
The grower gets dose, timing, method and compatibility notes. We record pest and disease pressure, input spend, marketable yield and margin. Every recorded outcome sharpens the next prescription.
Output: evidence that compoundsWe don't sell complexity. We use it to make one decision simpler.
03 · The prescription
What a grower actually receives
Sequencing, weather models and phenotyping all sit behind the screen. What comes out the front is one page: which product, how much, when, and whether it clashes with what's already being applied.
In
Crop, rootstock and growth stage
In
Soil chemistry, texture and management history
In
Season, local pest pressure and trap counts
In
Canopy and root-zone microbiome profile, pathogen identity
In
On-site weather sensor: wind speed, humidity, temperature, UV
Out
Product, dose, application window, the best hours to spray today, method, compatibility, and the expected effect on input spend
Timing is not a rule of thumb. The block's own weather sensor decides the spray hours, because a bait applied into midday heat and UV loses most of its value before the flies arrive. Confidence is stated, not implied. When the model cannot support a recommendation, it says so and asks for another sample instead of guessing.
Diagnosis
Fruit fly attack and Aspergillus sp.Colletotrichum sp. also detected in canopy samples
Prescription
Biodivera Integrated Fruit Fly ManagementProtein bait consortium plus antagonists for Aspergillus and Colletotrichum
Dose
1.2 L / haCanopy bait spot spray, plus root-zone drench
Best hours today
06:10 to 08:30Wind 4 km/h, humidity 82%, UV low. Second window 16:40 to 18:15.
Repeat
Day 0, then day 7 and day 21Held to weekly trap counts, extended if catches fall
Cost effect
−31% pesticide spendModelled against the block's previous program
Spectral read + weather sensor · block C-14
Compatible with current fertiliser program ✓
04 · Field evidence
Measured on paying farms, not in a greenhouse.
These figures come from commercial deployments in North Sumatra, compared against each farm's own previous management. We report them as operational records, because that is what they are.
37.5%Relative drop in symptomatic trees, from 40% to 25%, in blocks monitored for fruit fly attack and fungal disease from Aspergillus sp. and Colletotrichum sp.
>70%Reduction in insecticide use after fruit-fly pressure came under control, alongside an observed improvement in plant immune response.
+30%Increase in harvest productivity, associated with more efficient nutrient uptake.
>40%Increase in farmer income during the second year of the trial period.
These figures are drawn from Biodivera company records and operational field observations, compared with each farm's previous practice. They have not been independently verified and replicated field trials are ongoing. We will publish replicated results when they exist, and we will name what fails alongside what works.
05 · The company
One brand. Five instruments.
Each unit is a step in turning biodiversity into a working prescription, named plainly so a grower and an investor read them the same way.
Biodivera Intelligence
The prescription engine
Turns field, soil, weather and microbiome data into a biological prescription with a stated confidence level.
Biodivera Atlas
The living library
Our reference of microbes, genetic functions and crop responses. A proprietary map of tropical biodiversity that grows with every sample.
Biodivera Solution
The product
The microbial consortia and biological treatments a field actually receives, formulated for existing farm equipment.
Biodivera Field
Ground truth
Phenotyping, monitoring and commercial validation. Where the model meets the soil and has to prove itself.
Biodivera Labs
Discovery + formulation
Pathogen analysis, microbiome sequencing and consortium formulation. Where novel Indonesian microbes are found, characterised and built into treatments.
06 · Why this compounds
Every field improves the next recommendation.
The product isn't only the microbe. It's the intervention-response dataset that says which farms will respond, under what conditions, and with what economic result. That asset only exists if you own both the biology and the field.
Asset 01
Proprietary biological material
Characterised microbes and consortium candidates from tropical environments that competitors have not sampled and cannot access from their own geographies.
Asset 02
Intervention-response data
Records linking crop, rootstock, soil, weather, pest and pathogen, treatment, dose, timing, yield and profitability. That pairing is what makes a prediction possible.
Asset 03
Models that learn from failure
Prescription models improve as we learn where a treatment works, where it doesn't, and why. Negative results are part of the training set.
Asset 04
A repeatable discovery loop
The same route runs from crop problem to discovery, formulation, validation and market entry. That is what makes a second crop cheaper than the first.
Indonesia is the discovery ground. It is not the size of the ambition.
07 · Research ecosystem
Southeast Asia should be the new lab of the world.
The tropics hold the biology and the pathogen pressure. What has been missing is the instrumentation next to the commercial fields. We work with Indonesian science and technology institutions on microbe characterisation, pathogen work, crop research and field validation.
Institut Teknologi Bandung
Bandung · Life sciences & bioengineering
Badan Riset dan Inovasi Nasional
Jakarta · National research infrastructure
Universitas Gadjah Mada
Yogyakarta · Plant pathology & microbiology
IPB University
Bogor · Agronomy & crop protection
Institution names and marks are the property of their respective owners and are shown to describe existing research engagements. Universitas Gadjah Mada emblem: Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0.
08 · Global vision
Discover locally. Adapt globally.
Indonesia holds some of the least-sampled microbial diversity on earth, across tropical soils that already carry heavy pathogen pressure. That's a hard place to farm and an unusually good place to look for biology that works.
Growers & agribusiness
Crop assessment and treatment programs
Block-level diagnosis, a biological program built for the crop, and commercial field validation with measured input spend.
Research institutions
From microbiome science to a bottle
A route for microbiome, pathogen and formulation research to reach commercial fields instead of stopping at publication.
Biological product companies
Where your product actually fits
Test placement, improve application protocols, and build field evidence for products that already exist.
Distributors
Portfolios selected by biology
Product ranges matched to specific crops, soils and pathogen pressures rather than to whatever moves fastest.
Food & supply chain
Lower-input sourcing you can evidence
Crop programs with traceable input reduction, measurable quality, and documented farmer outcomes.
Strategic partners
Manufacturing, access, expansion
Product development, regulatory pathways, manufacturing capacity, field deployment and entry into new markets.
Work with Biodivera
The future isn't more treatment. It's the right one.
We're raising to expand replicated field validation, build out the Atlas, and take the same discovery loop into a second crop. If you invest in agricultural biotech, run commercial orchards, or make biological products, we'd like to talk.
contact@biodivera.comInvestorsA biological asset and a data asset that compound together, with paid deployments already in the ground.
GrowersA clearer treatment decision, a product that fits the existing program, and measured input spend.
ResearchersA path from discovery to commercial fields, with real intervention-response data coming back.
Strategic partnersManufacturing, market access and expansion across tropical crop systems.