The Groasis Growboxx plant cocoon allows plants and trees to grow in desert areas using limited water resources, without continuous energy or irrigation demand.
The Groasis Growboxx plant cocoon is a planting technology for eroded, rocky, dry and desert areas that allows growth of a single tree, or a tree in combination with four other plants. It is filled with a one-time dose of 15 liters of water, which is prevented from evaporating by the design of the box. Instead, water is slowly released into the soil surrounding the seeds. Rain and condensation from the surroundings are also collected in the box. In this way, a heavy rain shower of just 10 minutes once a year can be stored and apportioned to the plant until the following season.
If the two billion hectares of man-made deserts were small enough to cut, it is certainly small enough to replant.
Pieter Hoff – Founder, Groasis
According to the company, the average survival rate for the trees is over 90%, no matter how challenging the circumstances. Likewise, water savings are more than 90% compared to any other planting method during the first year. From the second year onwards, water savings become 100% as no water is artificially added.
Why you should care
According to the company, the average survival rate for the trees is over 90%, no matter how challenging the circumstances. Likewise, water savings are more than 90% compared to any other planting method during the first year. From the second year onwards, water savings become 100% as no water is artificially added.
How the Global Goals are addressed
No Poverty
Growing a productive fruit or medicinal tree in combination with four complementary vegetable plants can provide low income families with a source of income as well as food.
Zero Hunger
The vegetables are produced with 90% less water compared to traditional solutions, providing communities in arid areas with a reliable food source.
Life on Land
The Growboxx plant cocoon can be used to rejuvenate previously degraded land, using the ‘Groasis auto-reforestation method’.
Groasis
The Groasis Ecological Water Saving Technology consists of multiple products that make it possible to plant trees (in combination with vegetables, shrubs or flowers) on dry, eroded, desert and rocky lands without the use of irrigation and energy, and at the same time at low costs.
Global Goals addressed