San isidro labrador

This Saturday, May 15, we celebrate the feast of San Isidro Labrador. He is the patron saint of farmers and of numerous towns with an agricultural tradition. Isidro Merlo y Quintana was his real name, he was a farmer and a very devout person, who every morning visited several churches in Madrid before going to the lands he farmed for his lord, Iván de Vargas.

Defeder, as a manufacturer of organic 100% fertilizers, celebrates and commemorates the day of San Isidro Labrador, giving thanks to the great work of all farmers so that in all houses we can obtain healthy and quality food.

Organic farming is a type of agriculture that is the future, but it is also the present. Defeder promotes the strategy of the circular economy just like an ecological 100% product. Organic farming is obtaining healthy food, of higher nutritional quality, without the presence of chemical synthesis substances, obtained through sustainable procedures. It is a productive model that contemplates a global system of production management, which increases and enhances the health of ecosystems, the cycles and the biological activity of the soil. This is achieved by applying, whenever possible, agronomic, biological and mechanical methods.

Our country meets the conditions for the development of this type of agriculture due to its favorable climate and extensive production systems that are applied to a large number of crops. Taking care of the seed collection of native species is absolutely compatible with the development of the latest genetic improvement techniques, in order to optimize the productive capacities of intensive crops.

More and more organic products from the earth are consumed. fertilizers from Defeder They contribute to fruit and vegetable crops reaching a greater number of consumers.

Defeder is committed to national and high-quality products. Long live San Isidro Labrador!

and Long live the farmers!