In June 2016 the presidency of the CSIC awarded to the Institute of Ceramics and Glass (ICV-CSIC) the project entitled “Glass fertilizers specially designed for the cultivation of legumes in soils of Peru”, presented within the call of the CSIC program of scientific cooperation for development, I-COOP and, whose objective was to contribute to the strengthening of the scientific, technical and training capacities of the developing countries, promoting collaboration between CSIC researchers and the staff of scientific and academic institutions of such Countries. The results were as follows:
a) Several of the developed glasses present good behavior as fertilizers for Centennial Canarian Bean to be cultivated in conventional soils of Peru.
b) The glass fertiliser must be developed for each type of crop since it has been proven that a glass developed for tomato crops does not give good result if it is used for bean ones.
c) The glass must contain macro and microelements since if it were assumed that the micronutrients could be taken by the plant directly from the ground the results are not as good as when the glass fertilizer contributes.
d) The glass fertilizers are even better than conventional fertilizers in terms of the growth and quality of the canary bean plant.
e) The solubility of the glass influences the speed and growth of bean plants.
f) The average weight of the canary bean grains using conventional fertilizer was 240 g, whereas with if it is fertilized with glass it reaches 290 g, i.e. 50 g more per plant when using the developed glass fertilizer.
