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Platform uniting Simbiose, Bioma, Biagro, Biograss and Biojet combines industrial capacity, R&D expertise, and application technology targeting the global market
Brazil has created the world’s largest integrated biological inputs ecosystem, bringing together five commercial brands, four industrial units, exclusive technologies and a dedicated research center under a single business platform. The Cogny ecosystem represents a new model for the biological crop protection sector, offering what is described as a “one-stop solution” for agriculture’s demands.
“Cogny is the largest ecosystem dedicated to agricultural microbiology in the world today. These are companies 100% focused on delivering biological solutions in inputs, application equipment, and seeds with embedded technology, plus our own Research center,” explains Luiz Felipe Fiorese, International Business Manager at Cogny. “No economic group in the world has three market-access brands operating this way.”
Inside the Ecosystem…
The ecosystem’s structure sets it apart in the biological industry. At its commercial core are the Simbiose, Bioma, and Biagro brands — each serving distinct market channels and customer segments in Latin America. Together, the companies total nearly 300 registered technologies — an unparalleled differential within the Latin American bioinputs industry.
Simbiose operates with field development teams in Paraguay, while Biagro maintains more than 20 years of presence in the Argentine market. In Bolivia and Uruguay, the ecosystem employs a multi-brand strategy, using both Simbiose and Bioma according to local market conditions.
Beyond traditional distribution channels, the ecosystem includes specialized companies that address critical delivery challenges. Biojet manufactures equipment that enables the application of biological inputs in the field via planting furrow, promoting ideal temperature conditions with a differentiated nozzle self-cleaning system. The most recent addition, Biograss, is the seed brand with embedded technology, that is, a vehicle that carries the biological input to promote more biologically structured soil.
Industrial Capacity Meets Innovation Hub…
The ecosystem’s industrial infrastructure represents the largest microbiological production complex in global agribusiness. Four manufacturing units — three in Brazil and one in Argentina — provide production capacity for bacteria, viruses, and fungi within a single corporate structure, a combination rarely found in the industry.
The Ecosystem has a production capacity of more than 40 million kilos/liters per year and is currently undergoing expansions that will increase this number by 50%, reaching 60 million kilos/liters per year. Additionally, it holds the world’s largest liquid fermentation industrial complex. Its built area was expanded by more than 13,000 square meters, reaching 62,000 square meters. Furthermore, it has 17 distribution centers in Brazil.
“Generally, companies focus on bacteria, or bacteria and fungi, or sometimes just viruses,” explains Fiorese. “Having all three categories in the same economic group is not something easily found in the market. This brings us significant advantages in offering complete solutions — almost a one-stop shop where our clients, whether producers, cooperatives, distributors, or B2B partners, can find all the solutions they need within our ecosystem, whether microbiology, machinery, pasture seeds, or research.”
This industrial scale emerged from the Ecosystem’s origins, which serves Brazil’s extensive annual crops sector. The demanding conditions of large-scale soybean and corn production — frequently under uncertain weather conditions — drove the development of robust formulations with extended shelf life, high stability, and no refrigeration requirements.
The Ecosystem’s research capabilities are concentrated at Orygen Research — Brazil’s largest private microbiological Research and innovation Center focused on agribusiness. The R&D process has more than 10 stages, from microorganism bioprospecting, through genetic sequencing, editing, and genetic insertion, to formulation for industrial scale and product registration.
Orygen Research has its own collection of microorganisms and achieved the NB-2 security level assigned by the National Technical Biosafety Commission (CTNBio) — a special certification for manipulations with genetically modified organisms with protection and safety at all stages of the process. For more than 15 years, this Research Center has been developing microbiological technologies for companies in the Cogny Ecosystem…
