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FMC launches Biflex Treebags for banana crops in Brazil
Jun. 3, 2014
FMC Agricultural Solutions launched a technology aimed exclusively to banana crops, which is called Biflex Treebags. It is a bag, treated with bifenthrin, where the bunch of bananas is wrapped to protect it from pests, diseases and burns.
The product, originally developed by the company Chemplast, owned by McNeel International, improves considerably the quantity and the quality of bananas to export. Biflex is a recognized insecticide within the industry because of its wide control spectrum. It is classified as environmentally sustainable, and manufactured with FMC's bifenthrin.
The prodcut has no volatility, with mode of action by contact and regulator of the sodium channel. Due to these characteristics, it reduces the risks of contamination through inhalation of workers who come into contact with the product, and reduces the risk of absorption through the skin through perspiration.
Biflex ® Treebags have been used on banana plants all over the world, under several types of environmental and climate conditions, resulting in the control of pests of the following insects: Banana Aphids (Pentalonia nigronervosa, Aphis gossypii); Red Rust Thrips (Chaetanaphothrips orchidii, C. Signipennis); Flower Thrips (Frankliniella parvula); Pink scavenger (Anatrachyntis rileyi) Warms (Hypercompe icasia, Platynota rostrana) Black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens); Conga bee (Trigona corvina); Costurera bee (Orasema costaricensis); and Crazy Ants (Paratreachina longicornis).
The launch was introduced in 2014's edition of the Technical Exposition of Horticulture, Protected Crops and Intensive Crops (Hortitec), which took place from May 28 to May 30 in the city Holambra, state of São Paulo. Over 26,000 visitors attended the event, considered the largest exposition of horticulture in Latin America.
The company's portfolio shown at the fair also includes the fungicides Galben M, an option for controlling late blight, and Rovral - to manage foliar diseases and effective soil in all life stages of the fungus on the following crops: lettuce, carrots, onions, garlic, melons, red pepper, strawberry, peach, tomato, potato, and chrysanthemum
Insecticides such as Mustang, for multi-cropping, Talstar 100EC, designed to control caterpillars, bedbugs and white-flies, were also introduced at Hortitec. Besides that, the line Fertís - Soil +, Crop +, k Humate, Cal 3 e Cyto Red, which shows the nutritional management is essential to express the genetic potential of horticultural items, was there as well.
"Hortitec is the foremost Latin America showcase of the horticultural sector. It is the fourth time that FMC participates in the exposition, making sure that there is an interaction with the public and introducing the latest launches of the company", explains Flavio Mitsuru Irokawa, marketing director of horticultural products at FMC. "FMC products exposed here aim always to increase productivity through the development of new technologies", highlights.
Source: AgroNews
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