Description:

AGRIVENTURE IMI SILVER is a highly systemic neonicotinoid insecticide used to control sucking pests (like aphids, whiteflies, and thrips) across various crops.

Technical content: Imidacloprid 17.8% SL

Key Features & Benefits:

• Dual Action: Combines systemic activity (absorbed by roots and leaves) with contact and stomach action to paralyze and eliminate pests quickly.
• Translaminar Properties: Moves efficiently through the plant tissues to target pests hiding on the undersides of leaves.
• Broad-Spectrum Protection: Protects a wide variety of crops including cotton, chili, sugarcane, mangoes, and various vegetables.
• Environmentally Safer: Because it requires low application rates per acre, it is generally considered safer for the environment than traditional pesticides.
• Application Flexibility: Can be used efficiently as a foliar spray or applied as a soil treatment.

Crops suitability: Cotton, Paddy (Rice), Chilli, Sugarcane, Tomato, Okra, Brinjal, Mango, Citrus, Grapes, Groundnut

Commonly used for (Insect / Diseases):

• Cotton: Aphids, Jassids, Whitefly, Thrips
• Paddy (Rice): Brown Plant Hopper (BPH), White-Backed Plant Hopper, Green Leaf Hopper
• Chilli: Thrips, Aphids, Whitefly, Jassids
• Sugarcane: Subterranean and surface termites (applied as a soil drench or set treatment)
• Vegetables: Whitefly, Thrips, Aphids
• Fruits & Nuts: Hoppers, Leaf Miner, Psylla

Mode of entry:

• Systemic Action: When applied as a foliar spray, soil drench, or seed treatment, the chemical is rapidly absorbed by the plant’s roots, stems, and leaves. It moves upward within the plant (acropetal movement) along with water transport.
• Ingestion (Stomach Action): Pests (like sucking insects) consume the plant sap containing the insecticide and die.
• Contact Action: The insecticide acts directly on the target pests when it is sprayed over them or when they crawl over treated surfaces.

Mode of action:

• Nerve Disruption: Imidacloprid binds to the postsynaptic nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChR) in the insect's central nervous system.
• Over-stimulation: It mimics acetylcholine, causing continuous and uncontrolled nerve stimulation, which leads to muscle paralysis and eventual death.
• Target Specificity: It binds to insect receptors much more strongly than mammalian receptors, making it highly toxic to pests but safer for mammals at recommended doses.

Mode of application: Foliar spray or Soil drench or Stem paint,

Dose: 15 - 17ml in 15-liter water