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Download PDF At a time when active ingredients are fast disappearing, there may be a glimmer of hope for potato growers as BASF announce a bulging development pipeline, with the first new product anticipated next year. CPM reports. Nature doesn’t stand still. By Lucy de la Pasture Looking back over the past 50 years BASF has developed some stalwart potato products – such as Basagran (bentazone) in 1974 and Invader (dimethomorph+ mancozeb) in 1983, with Ranman TP (cyazofamid) launched in 2001. More recently the ranks have been swelled by the addition of Allstar (fluxapyroxad) in 2017 and Enervin (ametoctradin) earlier this year. But a new chapter is about to start with a development pipeline that’s busting at the seams with potato products in all classes – fungicides, herbicides and insecticides, explains BASF’s Matt Goodson. It reflects a change in BASF strategy which now places horticultural crops at a par with cereal crops in terms of importance. “World agriculture is facing a situation where the future requirement for food will drive an increase in productivity, but in a sustainable way as the industry meets carbon neutral targets and improves biodiversity and transparency. “Meanwhile pest and disease resistance and sustained loss of…
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