Now, more than ever, it is of utmost importance for the potato producer to reduce the risk of disease to the minimum and to produce at the optimum. Due to these reasons, innovation plays an important role in our daily lives. Infinito® from Bayer CropScience not only gives the producer outstanding defense against late blight on potatoes, it also offers:
Infinito® controls both A1 and A2 types of late blight and is regarded as a leader in reliable control throughout the world. Although the A2 type of late blight has not been identified in South Africa, it can occur at any time.
The A2 type late blight differs from the A1 type in that blight populations can reproduce sexually, producing persistent oospores capable of surviving in the soil for years to infect future crops.The A2 type late blibht has caused great losses throughout the world. Sexual reproduction also allows the pathogen to produce new more diverse populations with increased aggressiveness. So epidemics have become more severe with earlier infection and shorter life cycles. Resistance to previously reliable chemistry has developed.
Growers need more reliable, effective and longer-lasting products to combat late blight, but without increasing their reliance on agrochemical controls. This is the need the arrival of Infinito® - the ultimate in potato protection - will satisfy.