Insecticides
Insects like caterpillars and aphids can significantly reduce crop yields and quality through their feeding. Insecticides help minimize this damage by controlling insect pests.
The global insecticide market was estimated at about $7 billion in 2000. The largest insecticide markets are in fruit and vegetables, cotton, rice and corn. In addition to their use in agriculture, insecticides play an important role in public health programs to control diseases such as malaria and chagas.
| Product Main Brands | Main Countries of Use | What is it? |
|---|---|---|
| ACTARA® | Brazil, USA, Japan, India, South Korea, Mexico, Spain, Cote d'Ivoire, Philippines, Vietnam | Second generation neonicotinoid for controlling foliar and soil pests in many crops at low use rates, in a variety of application types. |
| CHESS®/PLENUM® /FULFILL® |
Philippines, Mexico, USA, Iran, Japan, Germany, Australia, United Kingdom, Italy, France | CHESS/PLENUM/FULFILL provides powerful control of aphids and whiteflies (vegetables, potatoes, stone fruits and ornamentals) and of hoppers (rice and mangos). It delivers immediate crop protection through permanent inhibition of feeding. |
| CURACRON® | Pakistan, India, Brazil, Indonesia, Egypt, Colombia, Burkina Faso, USA, Sudan, Japan | The foundation product for the control of lepidoptera in cotton with strong effects against mining and sucking insects as well as mites. The ideal partner for tank-mix or ready-mix with established and new products. |
| FORCE® | USA | The premium-performing corn granular insecticide that provides broadspectrum soil insect control and residue activity, with an excellent user and environmental profile. |
| INSEGAR® | France, Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, Greece, Spain, Russia, United Kingdom, Australia | Lepidoptera control in fruits and grapes, based on ovicidal activity. Ideally suited for resistance management. |
| KARATE® with ZEON TECHNOLOGY™ | USA, Germany, Brazil, France, India, Mexico, Indonesia, United Kingdom, Canada | KARATE with ZEON TECHNOLOGY sets a new standard in insecticide technology. ZEON TECHNOLOGY consists of a unique water-based, quick-release microencapsulation formulation. Along with the unsurpassed spectrum of control of the most damaging insects on a wide range of agricultural crops, the product now offers reduced toxicity hazard and improved residual activity, consistency, flexibility and value. |
| MATCH® | Brazil, Japan, South Korea, Italy, Venezuela, Spain, Colombia, Peru, Argentina, France | Reliable lepidoptera control in corn, cotton and vegetables. |
NEMATHORIN  |
United Kingdom, France, Italy, South Africa, Hungary | Modern contact nematicide, combining powerful effectiveness with a good environmental profile to minimize impact on non-target organisms. |
| PIRIMOR® | Germany, United Kingdom, France, Netherlands, Sweden, Spain, Poland, Italy, Mexico | Selective aphicide for use on a wide range of crops including cereals, fruits, vegetables and potatoes. |
| POLO® | Brazil, Pakistan, Turkey, Indonesia, Sudan, Malaysia, Cuba, Taiwan, Philippines | Excellent whitefly control on cotton and against mites, aphids and jassids through the control of nymphs and adults. |
| PROCLAIM® | Japan, Australia, South Korea, USA, Taiwan, Mexico, Indonesia, Israel, Thailand | Powerful control at low use rates of key lepidoptera in vegetables and cotton. |
| SUPRACIDE® | Japan, China, Spain, Brazil, South Korea, Italy, Greece, Chile, Turkey, Morocco | A fast-acting contact and stomach insecticide, which controls a large number of economically important pests in fruit trees. SUPRACIDE is used worldwide as the standard scale insect solution in perennial crops. |
| TRIGARD® | USA, Mexico, Brazil, Italy, Spain, Indonesia, Japan, Philippines, Peru, Taiwan | The systemic dipterous leafminer specialist product, which is selective towards beneficials. When used in alternation with VERTIMEC®, it provides the ideal resistance management rotation for vegetable leafminer control. |
| VERTIMEC® | USA, Brazil, Mexico, Italy, Egypt, France, Spain, Indonesia, Argentina, South Korea | The low use rate acaricide/insecticide used for the control of mites and insects on a number of crops including cotton, citrus, pome fruit, nuts and vegetables. |
