Focus Ventures Ltd. announced it has entered into a Research and New Product Development programme with Verdesian Life Sciences which is based in Cary, North Carolina. The programme entails creating soil profiles and conducting crop trials combining AVAIL Phosphorus Fertilizer Enhancer with highly reactive phosphate rock from Focus's Bayovar 12 project. Key objectives of the programme are: to determine if the combination of AVAIL and Bayovar 12 highly reactive phosphate rock as a direct application nutrient, will improve P availability and provide early-season uptake, which means faster root development, improved root structure and stronger stalk. whether the use of AVAIL with Bayovar 12 highly reactive phosphate rock, as a directly applied nutrient, is especially valuable for soil profiles showing low P levels and their row or cash crops, and to optimize the AVAIL coating application percentage to Bayovar 12 highly reactive phosphate rock for optimal P efficiency when directly applied.