India's Registration Committee, the decision-making body of the Central Insecticides Board and Registration Committee (CIB&RC), has approved 14 crop protection and household pest control products at its 477th meeting, chaired by Agriculture Commissioner Dr P. K. Singh at Krishi Bhavan in New Delhi. Registrations went to 11 companies, among them Bayer CropScience, Syngenta India, Rallis India, Coromandel International and Sumitomo Chemical India.
All the approvals were made under Section 9(3) of the Insecticides Act, 1968, the route for a product registered in a given form for the first time in India. Most cover domestic manufacture of new combination formulations. Willowood Industries was cleared to make fluxametamide technical, an isoxazoline insecticide, in India instead of importing it, with a provisional two-year shelf life and a condition to file 30 months of real-time storage data.
Weed-control mixtures make up the largest group. For transplanted rice, Coromandel's three-way powder of bispyribac sodium, penoxsulam and 2,4-D sodium salt, and Biostadt India's penoxsulam and pyribenzoxim concentrate target barnyard grass, sedges and broadleaf weeds; both carry warnings on toxicity to fish. In wheat, Rallis India's mix of metsulfuron methyl, clodinafop-propargyl and metribuzin and Bayer's aclonifen and diflufenican suspension are aimed at Phalaris minor, the most damaging grass weed of north India's wheat belt. Seedlings India's three-way mix for sugarcane covers more than a dozen weeds, including nutgrass and Parthenium.
Insecticide and fungicide approvals focus on high-value crops. Syngenta India secured an oxathiapiprolin and mandipropamid product for downy mildew in grapes and a sedaxane and fludioxonil seed treatment for black scurf in potato. Sumitomo's chlorantraniliprole and fenpropathrin product was cleared for pests of rice, soybean and brinjal, and Willowood Chemicals' three-way insecticide is restricted to brinjal; both await the fixing of maximum residue limits.
Two Bayer import cases, a flufenacet and metribuzin granule and a propineb fungicide for rice, were approved subject to clarification, because the committee found the named import source differed between the application forms and the supporting documents. Bayer must also submit geotagging records of the manufacturing site. Tropical Agrosystem was cleared to import 1-methylcyclopropene tablets for post-harvest treatment of apples, to be applied only by recognised pest control operators.
Outside farming, Godrej Consumer Products won registration for a renofluthrin household product against three mosquito species.
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Source: Global Agriculture
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