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

Natco Pharma Ltd is panning to start its 1st Inexperienced Label Pheromone products for Effective Administration of Pink Bollworm (PBW) in cotton crop duirng Kharif 2021.

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

The products will be released beneath the brand Natmate PBW. “This is the 1st pheromone-based indigenously made products for mating disruption that been given acceptance from Central Insecticide Board (CIB),” the firm stated.

Natco, as a result of its Crop Wellbeing Science (CHS) division, is operating with ATGC Biotech Pvt Ltd (ATGC) for the technological know-how. ATGC is a science-based innovative technological know-how firm concentrating on acquiring new biosafe molecules and resources to guard diverse crops from insect pests, in collaboration with US-based agricultural biotech firm ISCA Inc.

Pink Bollworm posed a big challenge in the past handful of years to cotton farmers across India. The hurt to excellent and yield of cotton owing to PBW is considerable and normally severely impacts the livelihood of smaller farmers.