Sipcam Nichino launches New product with highest concentration of Acephate insecticide in Brazil (22%)

Brazil's Sipcam Nichino disclosed that it intends to market an innovative version of the insecticide Cefanol, Cefanol Gold, in November 2023, with a more advanced formulation and a 22% increase in the active ingredient Acephate. It will be the company's highest concentration Acephate product on the Brazilian market. Cefanol Gold is a contact and absorption insecticide registered for use on eight crops of cotton, peanuts, potatoes, citrus fruits, beans, melons, soybeans and industrial tomatoes to control nearly 40 pests affecting their registered crops.

The product is recommended for economically relevant biological objectives such as:

• Heliothis virescens
  
• Spodoptera frugiperda
  
• Orthezia praelonga
  
• Bemisia tabaci
  
• Euschistus heros， Nezara viridula and Piezodorus guildinii
  
• Liriomyza huidobrensis
• Helicoverpa zea

Acephate is a low toxicity, broad spectrum and high efficiency organic phosphorus insecticide developed by Chevron Corporation in 1971. After application, this variety is absorbed and transmitted by crops, and acts on pests simultaneously through touch, stomach poison and fumigation, and can control a variety of pests such as chewing mouthparts, stinging mouthparts and leaf mites. Due to the outstanding comprehensive prevention and control ability of the variety in the field application, and the long-term effect, the use of the international market has been large, in 2014, Acephate ranked eighth in the global insecticide sales list, with a total sales of 515 million US dollars, which is the longest history of the top 10 varieties except chlorpyrifos