Pesticides

Plant protection chemicals

Coromandel Fertilisers manufactures chemicals for protecting plant life. These are manufactured in plants located at Ranipet (Tamil Nadu), Ankleshwar (Gujarat) and in Jammu. The product range covers over 35 types of insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, and plant growth regulators (PGRs), which account for nearly 10 per cent of the company's total turnover.

Product range

Insecticides
Parrysulfan (Endosulfan 35EC): For control of plant borers, hoppers and other sucking pests in paddy, cotton, sugarcane, tobacco, groundnut, sunflower, tea, cashew, chillies, pulses and mango.

Ortain (Acephate 75WP): Used in combination against sucking pests and larval pests; in cotton, paddy, tobacco and chillies.

Phendal (Phenthoate 50EC): For difficult-to-control pests like diamondback moth (DBM) in cabbage and cauliflower. Also used on sugarcane, paddy, cotton, groundnut and pulses.

Cyperkill (Cypermethrin 25EC): Highly effective against larval pests in cotton and chillies, like heliothis and prudenia.

ParryRatna (Cartap Hydrochloride 4G): Used in paddy all over India for the control of stemborers and leaf folders. Highly systemic and long duration.

Permasect (Permethin 25EC): The first Pyrethroid, it is broad spectrum and effective against larval pests. Acts as a choline esterase inhibitor and nerve poison.

Shakti (Quinalphos 25EC): A household name for red gram protection, it is also used for groundnut, cotton, chillies, tomato, tobacco, etc.

Fungicides / herbicides
Jatayu (Chlorothalanil 75WP): A broad spectrum fungicide with both contact and anti-sporulant action, for early and late blight in potato, downy mildew and anthracnose in grapes, apple scab, rust and tikka spot of groundnut, as well as fruit rot in chillies.

Hexastop (Thiophenate Methyl 70WP): Highly systemic fungicide for powdery mildew in cucurbits and papaya, fusarium wilt in pigeon pea, apple scab, ring rot in tomato, as well as brown rust and blight in wheat.

Benofit (Benomyl 50WP): Disrupts cell division in fungal cells, used against powdery mildew, anthracnose, leaf spot and fruit rot in groundnut, tobacco, grapes, beans, cucurbits, chillies, brinjal, sugarbeet and peas.

Plant growth regulators
Fantac (bio-stimulant): Enhances produce quality and quantity in grape, paddy, etc.

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