Radiant, a new pesticide launched: A new insecticide, 'Radiant' has been launched by Lachlan Kenya and Dow Agro Sciences of France. The insecticide is aimed at small insects like worms, thrips and leaf miners which cause significant losses in vegetables. Radiant is also active on diamondback moth and other pests. Radiant is effective against a wide variety of pests but not harmful to beneficial insects. Radiant provides a broad spectrum of pest control while maintaining populations of most beneficial insects. It has short re-entry, a three-day pre-harvest interval, low use rates, and has minimal personal protective requirements making it a convenient, cheaper and easy-to-use product. Among its other qualities, it offers fast knock-down against % pests and is ideal for rotational use in Integrated Pest Management (IPM)programmes. It provides sharp, consistent protection from insects between sprays and may either remain on the surface or penetrate into the leaf to control insects both by contact and ingestion (called translaminar activity). The US Environmental Protection Agency has accepted it for registration and is labeled for use in bulbs, fruiting, leafy and root vegetables, cole crops, corn, cucurbits, legumes, potatoes, soybeans and strawberries. In this regard, local farmers who use Radiant have no fear of their produce being rejected in the US. Radiant's low-cost effectiveness should not be seen in terms of being cheap but in terms of the wide range of pests it acts against, which in turn does way with the need to purchase and apply multiple pesticides on vegetable farms.
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