Natco Pharma to launch pheromone product to control Pink Bollworm in cotton crop

Natco Pharma Ltd is panning to start its first Inexperienced Label Pheromone solution for Effective Administration of Pink Bollworm (PBW) in cotton crop duirng Kharif 2021.

“Natco Pharma is pleased to announce its foray into Pheromone primarily based mating disruption technological know-how for Integrated Pest Administration (IPM) resolution to farmers in India,” the Hyderabad drug maker claimed in a statement on Monday.

The solution will be released underneath the brand name Natmate PBW. “This is the first pheromone-primarily based indigenously created solution for mating disruption that gained approval from Central Insecticide Board (CIB),” the corporation claimed.

Natco, as a result of its Crop Health Science (CHS) division, is operating with ATGC Biotech Pvt Ltd (ATGC) for the technological know-how. ATGC is a science-primarily based progressive technological know-how corporation concentrating on creating new biosafe molecules and resources to shield numerous crops from insect pests, in collaboration with US-primarily based agricultural biotech corporation ISCA Inc.

Pink Bollworm posed a important problem in the past number of yrs to cotton farmers across India. The harm to high quality and produce of cotton because of to PBW is significant and typically severely influences the livelihood of smaller farmers.