FMC presents at Hortitec solutions and innovations for the management of horticultural crops

FMC, an agricultural science company, participates in Hortitec 2022, which takes place between the 22nd and 24th of June, in the municipality of Holambra, São Paulo, presenting innovations for fruit and vegetable crops, which range from planting to harvesting, through of high quality products for crop protection.

 "FMC, aligned with its purpose, has efficient and sustainable solutions for the field. Therefore, we present our product portfolio as well as our TOGETHER producer relationship program, which the producer can count on throughout the 22/23 harvest", comments Luis Grandeza, Crops Manager at FMC.

Due to their importance throughout the national territory, FMC focuses on solutions for sustainable control of Whitefly and Tomato Moth, with the Benevia program and Verimark, which focuses on combating these pests, both via soil and leaves. . In addition, Quartz, a biological nematicide with high effectiveness in controlling nematodes in various crops, is also highlighted, with an additional structure in the external area of ​​the event, for its presentation.

Colha + Sustainability Program

In a world where we have more and more people, food for everyone has been a recurring topic. And for FMC it is no different. “We treat this issue with great responsibility and therefore, we thought that a campaign the size of Colha+Sustentabilidade would be essential. Our attention is focused on the field and more specifically on the producer, offering support in the form of technology and solutions that support them throughout their journeys, such as low-sufficiency products, with MRLs - Maximum Waste Limits - established in European and US countries. , lower carbon emissions per ton of food produced, in addition to acceptance in the main certification programs in Brazil and the world for the fruit and vegetable markets”, explains Luis Grandeza.

Technologies

 “Investing in research and development, FMC has been working on solutions that help producers from planting to harvest. As is the case with the Verimark and Benevia insecticide programs, which have a vaccine effect, always used at the beginning of the vegetable cycle. The line of fungicides focused on the control of Late Blight and Alternaria, includes the products Galben M, Zignal, Rovral and Authority in addition to Regalia Maxx, a biofungicide, which increases the natural resistance and health of the plant, increases vigor and quality mainly for export fruits. The pre-emergent herbicide Reator “comes as an excellent solution, at a time of shortage of herbicides for potatoes and cassava, where the producer can carry out the plant and apply modality and his crop emerges free from competition” mentions Luis Grandeza, Crops Manager at FMC.

In addition to them, FMC also invested in innovations that act in nutrition such as Seed+ and Crop+, both work as crop biopotentiators and act on plant metabolism, mitigating various biotic and abiotic stresses, and making the plant better able to express the its maximum genetic potential, as well as biological ones such as Quartzo, which comes from the Nematode Command program, the bionematicide is the market leader in the control of Wound Nematodes (Pratylenchus zeae and P. brachyurus) and Root-knot Nematodes (Meloidogyne incognita and M. javanica).