AgroPages-A breakthrough of abamectin and chlopyrifos formulation in China-Agricultural news

The Institute of Plant Protection (IPP) at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) recently announced that its pesticide project “Industrialization and demonstration promotion of abamectin and chlopyrifos aqueous capsule suspension (CS)” has been accepted.

In this project, melamine resin was first globally used as the encapsulation wall material. The CS formulation is characterized by the high rate of coating, equal size of microcapsules and safety for germination of seeds in peanuts. For industrialization, a production line with 1,000 tons/annual abamectin and chlopyrifos CS (16%) was established in four demonstration bases in Shandong, Henan and Hebei, with a demonstration area of 48,000 mu. After seed treatment with this product, the control effect of underground pests in the peanut field reached 80%. Currently, the institute has completed field trials for registration purpose.

In China, there is no reported research on abamectin and chlopyrifos CS. The IPP is most likely the first one to develop this formulation.