About Us
Our progress is measured by our sustainability scorecard.
Our success is measured by the growth in those we support.
Our Story
Monutrix was created because we wanted to be involved in the solutions to some of the world’s biggest problems: food security, equity and employment, and climate change.
We began as a Moringa Oleifera Tree farm and product ingredients company based in Limpopo, South Africa, and expanded into researching other plant-based ingredients to create products that improve crop health and growth, and human and animal nutrition.
We grow and harvest the leaves from our MO Trees to make one of the most game changing natural and organic agricultural biostimulants in the world today: MOBIOSTIM. A biostimulant’s function is to stimulate natural plant processes to enhance and benefit nutrient uptake, nutrient efficiency, tolerance to environmental stress, and crop quality.
We believe that agriculture is the solution to climate change and by fixing agriculture we also solve other problems such as employment, food security and people’s heath through better nutrition. Nutrition is the building block of life and the building unit of the planet is nature and the building unit of any great organisation is the individual.
Our Goals
To be one of the most trusted companies in the world, and
To make an individual’s world a better place in which to live.
The problem we wanted to solve
It was the three biggest challenges in agriculture; 1) feeding a growing population, 2) providing a sustainable livelihood for farmers, and 3) balancing the environmental impacts and preserving natural resources, that inspired us as to where to begin in applying our solutions. We wanted solve this problem, create a product that:
- produces no waste,
- combats greenhouse gas emissions and global warming,
- helps combat the negative effects of climate change on the physical well-being of crops,
- solves the growing pressure on farmers to increase crop yields,
- reduces the use of harmful chemical inputs in farming,
- creates employment in rural communities,
- support an impact investment model that can facilitate skills development, community participation and wealth creation, and
- has a significant contribution to the food and nutritional needs of a growing population.
The product we created was MOBIOSTIM
Our Approach
We harness the ingenuity of nature to be the strength behind our innovations. We make use of plant nature to create useful products that solve problems.
We applied scientific research data on plant immunity and how plants grow to create a natural product that farmers need, and that would deliver a sustainable solution to increasing farm output while reducing inputs, and lessen the reliance on chemical alternatives and improve the environment.
Research and trials began in 2017-18, and after perfecting the organic product formula and growing methodology over 2.5 Years, product registration was completed in South Africa in 2020. Our first product was MOBIOSTIM, and saw us take the natural growth technology of plants and apply that to create a product that delivers a better and real sustainable solution for food production, quality and yield.
It was in unlocking the natural immune-health-growth benefits that reside in Moringa, one of the most, if not the most nutritionally dense plant in the world that we decided to apply what was intended for human nutrition to also plant nutrition and animal nutrition. Each group required their own immune-health-growth formula from our MO Trees.
Our Values
are what supports our goals and help shape our identity
Family
Our concern is first to the capability building and growth of our MO Family. To enable each individual to make their own contribution and to be valued for what inspires them.
Fulfillment
We seek Fulfillment from the pursuit of purpose and from having made a difference in getting things done. To deliver a difference for another is love’s dividend, to deliver a difference in our self is to decide a destiny.
Forefront
It is at the Forefront of activity that we truly confront problems and challenge ourselves to contribute in ways that max out our ability to create and care. Our actions are intended to create a pathway for others to perform better.
Freedom
We have the integrity to hold our self to the highest levels of personal performance and the ethics to improve the conditions around us. Through integrity and ethics we maintain our Freedom and the rewards of profit from what we produce. The reinvestment of profit furthers that freedom.
Our Principles
guide our decision making, our ways of working and act as a foundation of behaviour that shapes our culture
Quality
Quality infuses our products and protects our purpose. Quality outcomes are the aims of our actions.
Collaboration
We partner to perform better, to accelerate progress and to share in the benefits from greater growth. We reach greatness by caring for our communities.
Understandings
We take a whole-of-system and a whole-of-society approach to removing complexities. We create an impact in an interdependent and interconnected world through expansion.
Creativity
Our creativity is our competitive advantage and our value creation is as inclusive as it is innovative. We empower a future and enhance the environments for which we are responsible.
Excellence
We learn and practice, inspire ingenious actions in others, and share an expectation for individual excellence. We support the continuity of excellent performance through teams.
Our History
Began researching plant growth hormones found in plants
At our first farm, all our MO Trees die in and we start again
Continue trials on our MO Trees and on field crops in South Africa.
First efficacy trials achieve yield increase 30% sweet potato and 72% pumpkin.
New Farm established in northern Limpopo, South Africa
Completed Pot Trials on Lettuce, Beans, Maize to ensure non-Phytotoxic
Refocused business on one product technology, Biostimulants
Monutrix Pty Ltd established July
Product registered with the Department of Agriculture, South Africa
Launched 1st product MOBIOSTIM, an organic plant based Biostimulant
Began exporting MOBIOSTIM to Europe for trials
Continuing R&D work on farming and production methods and technologies and future innovation on MOBIOSTIM.