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How to use insecticides correctly in agriculture

Good insecticides insecticides for agriculture are those that control, prevent and eliminate a possible insect pest, contributing to the protection of a large agricultural crop without affecting its normal development and growth.

For these products to be effective, the correct dosage must be applied to each plantation. If toxicity levels are exceeded, it could be a cause of environmental contamination and even put human health at risk.

The success of using an insecticide as a weapon to combat any pest depends on the following questions: which insecticide to use, how, when and where to apply the treatment?

In the following article we wanted to collect some of the most useful tips for working with insecticides for agriculture and achieve, in turn, an optimal application of these products.

Insecticides for Quality Agriculture: Sultrin 40

Enemies in the form of insects for every crop will not always be the same. For this reason, an insecticide model should be applied that allows the elimination of any group of harmful organisms for the crop. If the problem is trichopteran insects, caterpillars or aphids, it is advisable to use an insecticide for agriculture that has properties such as those provided by Sultrin 40.

This phytosanitary product is specialized in the control of pests in vegetables such as pumpkins, zucchini, cucumbers, melons or watermelons. Sultrin 40 belongs to the category of products that are used by AJF markets as insecticides for agriculture.

The major chemical component of Sultrin 40 is sulfur. sulfurwith a presence rate in the final product of 40%. In addition to functioning as an insecticide, it can also act as a fungicide and acaricide.

Benefits of insecticide application

The use of insecticides can save a lot of time and resources in a crop. Some of the benefits that we can find thanks to its application are the following:

  • They are usually concentrated products, so they do not take up too much space and can be used in a simple way.
  • They are effective against a large number of insect species that can damage any crop: flies, mosquitoes, cockroaches, bedbugs, caterpillars, etc.
  • They attack both insects and trichoptera.
  • They are highly effective in interstices and nests.

The exact dose: lethal for insects

The use of insecticides can lead to two problems. The main one is that exceeding the applied dose can create toxic problems that affect the environment and humans. The second is the opposite case: that the application is very small, so it would be very difficult to kill the insects.

For the insecticide to be lethal, it must attack the vital system of the insect’s organism, such as the nervous system, the gastric system or the chitinization of the integument.

The degree of toxicity of an insecticide for agriculture is called the median lethal dose (LD50). Applying this dose will cause the death of half of the population of an insect family. The LD50 is the final result of different mathematical formulas that can be visualized in graphs and curves. Thus, taking into account these graphs, farmers will be able to follow their work rhythm, eliminating the insects and without the use of the insecticide being harmful.

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