Booster soon to be launched in Indonesia

Roger Pinder, Global Business Development Consultant to Pangaea Biosciences, reported that Booster™, now registered in Indonesia will be launched in Q2 2025 for resistant pest control in rice, shallots, and other vegetable crops. 

Booster™ deactivates the metabolic pathway (cytochrome P450) in insects, weeds and diseases which cause the breakdown of the insecticide, herbicide or fungicide applied. Its great strength is that in doing so it rejuvenates older chemistry, a major advantage to the farmer who has few choices of product now, given the huge cost to bring a novel chemical to the market. 

Pangaea has also launched its novel and patented delivery system, Tardis™ which complements Booster™ in optimising the control of resistant organisms when tank-mixed with the agrochemical partner as this delays the release of the pesticide giving Booster™ time to break the resistance. 

″Resistance is a major problem in the control of insect pests globally. It is a significant threat to global food security,″ says Roger. ″The ability to bring back a range of chemistry which have all started to fail in the market through resistance problems should have enormous appeal to farmers all over the world.  Currently Booster™ is registered in Poland, the Baltics, Romania, Czech, Denmark, the UK and Indonesia. Trials in Indonesia have shown fantastic control of resistant insect pests, including brown plant hopper, whitefly and fall army worm in many different crops and also control of grass weeds such as goosegrass resistant to glyphosate. 

In Indonesia, a new set of trials with Booster is underway to suppress rice stem borer as well as further work with glyphosate for the control of resistant weeds. PT Bulindo Agro Teknologi in Indonesia has placed its first order of Booster™ for test marketing. This is the first sale for Booster™ outside Europe!