China developed wheat-protective novel biopesticide

An environment-friendly wheat pest-targeted insecticide / fungicide has been successfully developed by Sun Qishan, a China’s senior agronomist; also a national patent has been obtained for the research achievement.

The research enables extraction of the main ingredient of garlic – ethylicin, which is added with small amount of environment-friendly insecticide or fungicide to form an aqueous emulsion, being regarded as a novel pesticide especially suitable for use in the growth of wheat particularly in the mid and later stage of growth during which aphids,redspiders,wheat sawfly and army worm are killed; the product can also be applied to powdery mildew, rust disease, leaf blight and sheath blight, as well as being used to reduce later-stage death of strain caused by ophiobolus and brown foot rot. The formula is derived based on sophora and garlic extractions, therefore being referred to as “biologically originated environment-friendly wheat pest insecticide”, which is free of toxicity with a broad spectrum pest killing effect.

Industry experts said that the novel pesticide, if used in a right way in the wheat field will not only effectively control pest but can also avoid excessive killing of natural enemies of pest.