Sipcam Nichino fungicide is among the most effective premium fungicides in the 2020-2021 Network Trials

The completion, in recent days, of the Network Tests for the 2020-21 harvest, around the management of soybean rust, brought good news to the technical team at Sipcam Nichino Brasil. In the results obtained, the fungicide Fezan Gold, from the company of Italian-Japanese origin, confirmed the high performance recorded in previous harvests. Compared to 13 other fungicides, Fezan Gold was positioned among the ‘premium’ products with the best performance and the most favorable cost-benefit ratio in controlling the disease.

The trials, conducted in various parts of the country, included experiments to evaluate the severity of the disease and the productivity of the crop, above all. According to Sipcam Nichino, its fungicide performed only 4% below the standard treatment adopted, called “Program” or “Conscious Management”. Fezan Gold, the company informs, was also one of the base fungicides of the 2020-21 Program.

Conscious Management considers the adoption of all tools available to the producer with a view to controlling diseases, including respect for sanitary conditions, planting soybean varieties tolerant to pathogens, chemical control with preventive interventions, intervals between applications and resistance management, a practice anchored in alternating between active ingredients.

“In general analysis, Fezan Gold remained ahead of other products. The fungicide has established itself as one of the four stars in the segment”, says Sergio Camargo, agronomist in the market development area at Sipcam Nichino.

Regarding the cost-benefit ratio, he adds, on average across all locations where the Network Trials took place, Fezan Gold transferred a return of 5,11 bags of soybeans, for each bag of oilseed invested in product applications. According to Camargo, the effectiveness of the fungicide was 71%, compared to a severity scenario of 64,7% present in the so-called “witness”.

Regarding productivity, the agronomist points out, the product delivered 55,2 bags per hectare, with 13,6 bags per hectare higher than the control and above almost all fungicides tested. “Fezan Gold was just 2,4 bags per hectare below standard treatment and confirmed its ‘strength’ when linked to conscious disease management programs.”

According to Camargo, Fezan Gold was launched a few years ago as the first fungicide on the market to contain systemic and protective characteristics with multisite action in the same formulation, “a decisive aspect in carrying out the conscious management of diseases of the 'Soya Pathosystem'”, says the agronomist . The product remains one of the few available with these features. 

Camargo also explains that the product's active ingredients are the chemical groups isophthalonitrile and triazole. “It controls rust, inhibits the establishment of pathogen resistance and preserves a high standard of effectiveness in conscious management.”

cercospora 

Sipcam Nichino reported that in addition to the above-average result in controlling Asian rust, Fezan Gold stood out for being the most effective product in controlling cercospora, another disease of economic importance for soybeans. “This disease has become a problem in the final stages of grain filling”, explains Camargo.

According to Camargo, still in relation to cercospora, in the State of Mato Grosso, one of the regions that hosted the Network Trials, the disease showed a severity of 42,4% in the control, while Fezan Gold transferred the best treatment. “The fungicide reduced the severity to 13%, a performance not achieved by any other product”, concludes Camargo.