Description:

AGRIVENTURE AGRI SPRED is a non-ionic surfactant used in agriculture to significantly lower the surface tension of water. Added to foliar sprays like pesticides and fertilizers, it allows droplets to flatten and spread evenly, enhancing absorption, preventing run-off, and maximizing crop yields.

Technical content: Silicon Spreader

Key Features & Benefits:

• Super Spreading Action: Reduces water surface tension to create a thin, uniform film over the entire crop surface, even on highly waxy or hydrophobic leaves.
• Stomatal Penetration: Forces spray solutions deep into the plant’s leaf structure through open stomata, accelerating the uptake of active ingredients.
• Increased Rainfastness: Rapidly binds the sprayed chemicals to the leaf, severely reducing wash-off from sudden rain or irrigation.
• Water & Cost Optimization: Improves crop coverage with less spray volume, allowing farmers to use smaller amounts of agrochemicals and water per acre.
• Drift Reduction: Helps spray droplets settle firmly onto the target vegetation rather than being carried away by the wind.
• Wide Compatibility: Can be safely tank-mixed with most insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, and foliar fertilizers without causing chemical reactions.
• Cost Savings: By ensuring no spray is wasted to runoff, many farmers can reduce their pesticide or fertilizer Dose by 15% to 25% while maintaining effectiveness.

Crops suitability:

• Vegetable & Fruit Crops: Tomato, Chilli, Brinjal, and leafy greens.
• Cash & Field Crops: Cotton, Paddy (Rice), Wheat, Sugarcane, and Soybeans.
• Horticultural Crops: Grapes, Mango, Pomegranate, Banana, and Citrus (these often feature heavily waxy or thick leaves that benefit from superior spreader technology).
• Floriculture & Ornamentals: Rose, Marigold, and greenhouse flowering plants.

Commonly used for:

• Foliar Fertilizers: Helps vital nutrients spread uniformly across waxy or hairy leaves, maximizing direct nutrient uptake.
• Pesticides & Insecticides: Ensures thorough coverage over the entire plant canopy, reaching the undersides of leaves where pests often hide.
• Fungicides: Improves contact with the plant's surface to quickly prevent or halt the spread of fungal diseases.
• Herbicides: Enhances the penetration of weedicides into tough, waxy weed surfaces for more effective eradication.
• Rainfastness: Helps agrochemicals bind to the foliage, protecting the treatment from being easily washed away by sudden rain or irrigation.
• Drip Irrigation & Soil Drenching: Improves water dispersion and active ingredient penetration into the root zones.

Mode of entry:

• Physical Surface Action: The silicon molecules immediately orient themselves at the boundary between the spray droplet and the leaf's waxy cuticle. This causes the droplet to flatten out and spread over difficult-to-wet, waxy, or hairy leaf surfaces without beading up.
• Stomatal Infiltration (Penetration): The unique structure of the silicon surfactant allows the liquid to physically enter the plant's microscopic leaf pores (stomata).
• Systemic Translocation: By pulling the active ingredients directly into the plant tissues and stomata, it bypasses the outer defenses, driving systemic agrochemicals deeper and faster into the plant system.

Mode of action:

• Surface Tension Reduction: Silicon-based surfactants disrupt cohesive forces between water molecules. This allows droplets to spread over waxy, hairy, or water-repellent plant surfaces without beading up.
• Stomatal Penetration: Unlike traditional carbon-based surfactants, silicon spreaders facilitate the flow of liquids directly into the plant’s stomata (leaf pores), ensuring rapid absorption of the active ingredients.
• Enhanced Adhesion: It binds the active ingredients to the leaf structure within seconds, creating excellent rainfastness so the solution is not easily washed away by sudden showers.
• Spray Drift Reduction: It helps produce heavier, more uniform droplets that are less susceptible to being carried away by the wind.

Mode of application: Foliar Spray

Dose: 5 - 7ml in 15-liter water

Additional information:

• Compatibility: They are non-ionic, meaning they can typically be tank-mixed safely with insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, and water-soluble fertilizers.
• Best Practices: Add the spreader last into your spray tank to avoid excessive foaming, and use gentle stirring rather than vigorous shaking.