Petrokimia Gresik Develops Soil Recovery Solution to Boost Farmer Productivity

PT Petrokimia Gresik (Persero) has introduced the GladiAgro: Next-Gen Soil Revival innovation as a solution to help restore soil health while supporting sustainable agriculture. The innovation has the potential to improve fertiliser efficiency and increase agricultural productivity through better soil quality.

GladiAgro also won the highest award as Outstanding Distinguished Innovator at the SDGs Innovation Accelerator for Young Professionals 2026, organised by the Indonesia Global Compact Network (IGCN).

The achievement paves the way for GladiAgro to be presented at the UN Global Compact forum in New York, United States, in September 2026.

Petrokimia Gresik President Director Daconi Khotob said GladiAgro was developed to address the challenge of declining agricultural soil quality, which can affect fertiliser effectiveness and agricultural productivity.

“GladiAgro is part of Petrokimia Gresik’s efforts to provide solutions to soil health problems. We want to help farmers improve land conditions so that fertilisation becomes more effective, productivity increases, and agricultural sustainability is maintained,” Daconi said in Gresik recently.

The innovation was born from Petrokimia Gresik’s concern about the declining quality of agricultural soil in Indonesia. This condition is influenced, among other things, by unbalanced fertiliser use and the continued practice of burning agricultural waste.

Based on test results from 40,282 soil samples conducted by Petrokimia Gresik since 2016 across 27 provinces, 91.9 percent of samples showed low organic carbon content. This condition can reduce soil quality and fertility, diminish fertiliser effectiveness, and make agricultural productivity improvements less than optimal.

To address this problem, GladiAgro utilises biological products based on Petro Gladiator’s superior microbes to process agricultural waste into Liquid Organic Nutrition (NOC). The nutrition is then returned to the land to increase organic matter content, improve soil structure, and help restore its fertility.

“GladiAgro targets the root of the agricultural problem, namely low soil fertility. Petro Gladiator acts as a decomposer to help increase organic matter content. When soil quality improves, nutrient absorption becomes more optimal so that agricultural productivity can increase and land becomes more adaptive to climate change,” Daconi explained.