Plant Health Care is a leading developer of peptide formulations used to improve crop yield and quality. Announced that its nematicide TEIKKO has been registered in Brazil and can be used in the 2024/25 soybean planting season.
TEIKKO features the company's PREtec peptide technology. Derived from natural proteins, PREtec is environmentally friendly and can stimulate plant defense systems and strengthen pathogen resistance mechanisms, thereby improving crop growth and quality and helping to withstand various abiotic stresses.
TEIKKO's innovative peptide product can help farmers effectively combat nematodes without the need to apply traditional chemical pesticides. TEIKKO is now approved as a seed treatment for the control of soybean root rot nematodes. Studies conducted during the 2021/22 and 2022/23 soybean growing seasons show that TEIKKO's performance is similar to or better than that of benchmark chemical pesticide products. TEIKKO offers farmers new options to avoid the use of toxic pesticides without reducing efficacy. Compared with bio-containing products, it has a three-year shelf life, no special storage requirements, and can be flexibly distributed to farmers. The seed treatment dosage is low, does not interact with other traditional seed treatments (such as fungicides, insecticides), and has reliable efficacy under different environmental conditions (such as drought or moisture).
According to the latest data released by Kynetec, Brazilian growers spent $215 million on soybean nematode control in 2022/23, with annual growth rates of 55% over the past six years. In the future, TEIKKO will be approved for use on more crops and nematode species, further expanding its potential uses.
Plant Health Care is in discussions with multiple distribution partners to launch TEIKKO in 2024 for the 2024/25 soybean growing season.
Jeff Tweedy, CEO of Plant Health Care said: " TEIKKO will help Brazilian farmers produce soybeans sustainably and help the company become a leading global provider of alternatives to traditional agrochemicals. We know that unlike TEIKKO, current soil fumigants and other chemical nematicides have damaging off-target effects. The environmentally friendly TEIKKO biologics are as effective as or better than those older technologies, and we expect Brazilian farmers to adopt them quickly. We are excited about our development plans to launch TEIKKO in 2024 and achieve strong growth thereafter. "
Source: AgroPages
