DUPONT’S RANGER® COMPLETES SUGAR CANE LINE

DuPont’s Agriculture and Nutrition Division has announced that it is about to launch Ranger®, a herbicide that complements the company’s line of products for the sugar and ethanol industry and is aimed exclusively at crops of sugar cane of the “soca” variety.

DuPont’s portfolio of defensive chemicals for use in sugar cane plantations, such as Velpar® K and Advance® herbicides and Curavial® and ZAZ® maturing agents, is now complete with the introduction of Ranger®.

According to agronomist Marcio Farah, marketing manager for DuPont for the sugar cane segment, the new herbicide was tested by the company over the past two years, and proved to be quite successful. According to Mr. Farah, it is a herbicide for use in pre-emergencies, recommended for the control of wide-leafed weeds.

“In addition to an excellent control spectrum, Ranger® is a new alternative, one that presents the best cost-benefit ratio in its segment”, says Mr. Farah.

Among the main benefits of the new herbicide, Mr. Farah points to the broad residual effect, the practicality, and the easy, safe use, in addition to the usage doses, which vary between 1.8 kg and 2.5 kg per hectare, “according to the type of soil, level of infestation, and weed that has to be brought under control”, notes the executive.

Mr. Farah also points out that Ranger® acts as an inhibitor of chlorophyll and photosynthesis; it is also selective as to sugar cane and presents a residual effect that may last up to 120 days, a fact which also reduces the so-called “picking” in sugar cane plantations.

The new herbicide will be sold in a wetting powder version, in hidrosoluble packages of 500 grams, inside aluminum-coated bags of 5 kg. The bags will be nested in shipping packages that weigh up to 15 kg.

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