Arysta LifeScience launches plant nutrient product portfolio in Southeast Asia

Arysta LifeScience has launched a unique portfolio of plant nutrient products in Thailand, making it among the first multi-national corporations to launch a comprehensive set of such products in the country. The launch follows two years of research and field trials with growers of rice and horticultural crops in Thailand.

The new portfolio includes four products from the Arysta LifeScience acquisition of Grupo Bioquímico Mexicano (GBM) in 2007, namely:

• BIOZYME, a complex of phytohormone, used to help flowering, fruit setting and fighting abiotic stess during the critical period in tomatoes and strawberries;

• FOLTRON PLUS, a balance of humic acid, folcystein and various foliar fertilizers, to help boost yields in rice, tomato and cucumber; and

• PILATUS and K-TIONIC, which help plants, such as rice, develop strong root systems.

A fifth product, INCA, rounds out the company’s plant nutrient protfolio. INCA is proprietary product that was first developed by Plant Impact and will be marketed in Thailand by Arysta LifeScience under an exclusive distribution and marketing agreement. The product is a calcium delivery system that moves calcium at a cellular level, giving greater calcium penetration to plants where needed. It reduces the risk of calcium disorders by helping to control stress and by building healthier cells. INCA has been shown to increase yields, enhance crop quality and improve shelf life, especially for root crops such as potatoes and Chinese redish. Field trials have demonstrated consistent yield improvement of 10-30 percent on those crops.

With the addition of these new, innovative products to its existing crop protection portfolio, Arysta LifeScience hopes to be one of the main players in the plant nutrient segment in Thailand within five years.