New scientific solutions open new opportunities for Italian export
Milan, November 6th, 2013 – In the frame of a strategy intended to support high quality food products and their export abroad, DuPont solutions allow cultivating products of excellence that go over Italian borders. The adoption of DuPont™ Coragen®, an innovative insecticide of DuPont able to effectively control the most harmful lepidoptera insects,is confirmed being a win win strategy thanks to its very effective action mode: it is in fact proven being safe on the crop and it is highly selective on useful insects and arthropods.
With the active ingredient DuPont™ Rynaxypyr®, Coragen® is the first product of the new chemical family of the anthranilic diamides, acting as a modulator of ryanodine receptors; it has a very low toxicological profile and, when properly applied according to label provisions, it conserves natural parasitoids, predators and pollinators. Rynaxypyr® is a precedent-setting innovation for the advancement of sustainable agriculture. The product enables farmers to more effectively protect yields and as a result recover more value from their crops.
Luigi Coffano, Country Manager DuPont Italiana and Food Chain Manager EMEA, said, “We are really proud in bringing a real contribution to increase value and accessibility to Italian food quality products abroad; in fact just recently the well-known Abate Fetel pears, protected with our products, have got over the strict US rules on imported foods and for the first time they will be marketed in the USA.”
The maximum allowed residues of Rynaxypyr® are harmonized all over the European Member States and the active ingredient is already allowed in most of the countries outside the EU importing fresh-cut and processed fruits and vegetables from Europe. This makes international trade simpler and ensure Italian fruit producers get access to their productions (apples and pears) protected with Coragen® in all key importing countries of our fruit and vegetable productions.
Philip Rollinson, Global Portfolio Manager for DuPont Insect Control, welcomes the recent opening of the U.S. market to Italian fruit products. “The breakthrough chemistry of Rynaxypyr® is helping farmers around the world produce higher quality, more abundant fresh fruits and vegetable crops to meet the needs of the growing global population. We are happy that consumers of the State of Delaware, where DuPont is headquartered, will be the first in the U.S. to taste the Abate pears, produced with use of DuPont crop protection products.”
The excellent eco-toxicological and environmental profile, the low toxicity to non target organisms”, the selectivity to arthropods able to defend useful insects and to keep the biodiversity in the orchards, and the very high effectiveness at low rate use, make this solution a great tool for integrated crop protection plans.
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