Xinnong’s patented Zinc thiazole - a new star in Southeast Asian fungicide market

Southeast Asia has a vast area planting rice, fruit and vegetable. It is a tropic region with high temperature and high humidity, being easily hit by typhoon. The region suffers from serious fungal diseases, which exist in the whole region. The economy of Southeast Asian countries develops well in general, where the quality of farm product is good and farmer’s disease control awareness is quite high. However, there is a scarcity of good fungicide varieties, copper agents are still the main products used there. Farmers are unsatisfied with the effect of control and safety of application. The other fungicide varieties, such as oxolinic acid and bismerthiazol, showed problems of resistance and control efficacy, and it is difficult to solve the problem of pesticide residues with currently available fungicide products, this is causing a great pressure on safe pesticide applications in the Southeast Asian countries where large amount of farm products are being exported. The agricultural streptomycin, which used to be widely used in the main rice production countries such as Thailand and Indonesia, has been prohibited. Over the last 20 years, there has been no release of new fungicide varieties in the world market, even multinationals could not present excellent fungicide varieties in their product lines.