Sipcam Nichino Brasil announces new fungicide Soleado at Hortitec 2025

Sipcam Nichino Brasil held the pre-launch of its new fungicide Soleado during Hortitec 2025, the largest horticulture event in Latin America, with news reporting by AgroPages. Of note, Soleado features the active ingredient boscalid in a water-dispersible granule (WG) formulation.

According to agronomist Marcelo Palazim from the market development department, Soleado will be officially launched in the coming weeks. For now, he disclosed that the solution is recommended for the control of diseases, such as black spot (Alternaria sp), white mold (Sclerotinia sclerotiorum), and phoma leaf spot.

Noted Sipcam Nichino Brasil, Soleado is a systemic fungicide registered for disease control in crops, such as Swiss chard, lettuce, garlic, endive, mulberry, potato, eggplant, coffee, onion, carrot, chicory, chrysanthemum, spinach, bean, raspberry, jiló (scarlet eggplant), melon, watermelon, strawberry, mustard, pepper, bell pepper, okra, rose, Spanish plum (seriguela), and tomato.

Also on display at the Sipcam Nichino booth at Hortitec was the insecticide Ohkami, which has established itself in the country as one of the most effective strategies for tomato growers in controlling tomato leafminer (Tuta absoluta), thrips, leafminers, mites, and small fruit borer. Beyond tomato production, Ohkami has been successfully applied to 11 other crops, including minor crops.

Further, Palazim said that within these crops—which include brassica leaves, such as broccoli, cabbage, kale, cauliflower, and others—the insecticide acts effectively in combating the diamondback moth, ″a pest well-known to growers for causing serial losses when not controlled,″ said officials.

Sipcam Nichino also had Pulsor 240 SC fungicide on display, a tool that has gained relevance in recent years in the fight against the disease Rhizoctonia, or Rhizoctoniosis, in potatoes, commonly known as ‘asphalt spot.’

″Pulsor 240 SC has both preventive and curative properties and acts at various stages of the Rhizoctonia solani fungus, which causes the disease,″ added Palazim, which is also registered for use in coffee, chrysanthemum, and turfgrass crops.

(Editing by Leonardo Gottems, reporter for AgroPages)