Insecticide Voliam Flexi receives label expansion to include vegetables

Date:08-10-2009

Syngenta Crop Protection announced that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved a label expansion for Voliam Flexi insecticide. Voliam Flexi is now approved for use on vegetables including brassica, cucurbit, fruiting and leafy vegetables. It is already registered for use on potatoes, pome fruit, stone fruit and grapes. State registrations or specific crop and/or pest uses may still be pending in certain states. Please check with your state regulatory agency to determine registration status.

Voliam Flexi features two modes of action to protect crops from chewing and sucking insects as well as lepidopteran pests. It contains chlorantraniliprole (CTPR), a mode of action from the diamide family of insecticides, and thiamethoxam, a member of the neonicotinoid class of chemistry. These two active ingredients are combined in an enhanced solution that delivers a broad spectrum of control of damaging insect pests in vegetables.

"Different insect pest populations often overlap in these vegetable crops, and growers can maximize their window of opportunity by controlling aphids, armyworms and leafhoppers with one product,” said John Koenig, Syngenta insecticide brand manager. "Voliam Flexi provides a flexible, convenient option with excellent efficacy and long residual activity. In fact, the broad-spectrum control of Voliam Flexi makes it an excellent replacement for organophosphate (OP) and carbamate insecticides.”

Voliam Flexi is a valuable resistance management tool and is highly compatible with Integrated Pest Management (IPM) programs. It will help growers combat a number of insect pests so they can achieve the maximum yield potential from the crop.

Koenig added, “It’s exciting to deliver a tool that raises the bar on performance and frees up growers to think about things other than insect control.”