Description:

AGRIVENTURE MAXICO is a broad-spectrum, dual-action fungicide widely used to protect agricultural crops against Oomycete fungal diseases (e.g., blights, downy mildew, and damping-off). It provides both systemic and contact protection.

Technical content: Metalaxyl 8% + Mancozeb 64% WP

Key Features & Benefits:

• Dual Action Protection: Combines systemic (Metalaxyl) and contact (Mancozeb) activities to cure existing internal infections and form a protective shield on the plant's surface.
• Preventive & Curative: Stops new fungal spores from germinating while simultaneously halting the growth of fungi that have already penetrated plant tissues.
• Broad-Spectrum Control: Highly effective against Oomycetes fungi and various diseases such as Late/Early Blight, Downy Mildew, Damping Off, and Phytophthora.
• Rain-Fast & Long Residual: Quickly absorbed into plant tissue, remaining active and effective for up to 14 days, even after light rainfall.
• Resistance Management: Multi-site contact action helps prevent or delay fungi from building immunity to the treatment over the season.
• Versatile Application: Can be applied as a standard foliar spray or as a soil drench for soil-borne fungal diseases.

Crops suitability: Paddy, Wheat, Tea, Coffee, Potato, Tomato, Chilli, Apple, Grapes, Mustard Tobacco, Black Pepper

Commonly used for (Insect / Diseases):

• Potato & Tomato: Late Blight, Early Blight, Damping off.
• Chilli: Fruit Rot, Leaf Spot.
• Mustard: White Rust, Downy Mildew, Alternaria Blight.
• Grapes: Downy Mildew.
• Tobacco: Damping off, Black shank.
• Black Pepper: Phytophthora Root Rot, Foot rot.
• Pearl Millet (Bajra): Downy Mildew.

Mode of entry:

• Systemic Action (Metalaxyl): Absorbed rapidly through the roots and leaves. It moves upwards inside the plant to cure existing infections by disrupting fungal protein and nucleic acid synthesis.
• Contact Action (Mancozeb): Remains on the plant's external surfaces to form a protective shield. It acts as a multisite respiratory inhibitor, stopping new fungal spores from germinating and penetrating the plant.

Mode of action:

1. Systemic Action (Metalaxyl 8%)

• Uptake: Quickly absorbed by the plant's roots and leaves, translocating upward through the vascular system.
• Curative & Preventive: Halts internal fungal development and mycelial growth.
• Mechanism: Disrupts nucleic acid synthesis by inhibiting RNA polymerase in the fungal pathogen, effectively starving the fungus of required proteins.

2. Contact/Protective Action (Mancozeb 64%)

• Surface Shield: Remains on the external plant surface, creating a protective barrier that prevents spore germination and fungal penetration.
• Multi-site Inhibition: Interferes with multiple biochemical processes inside the fungal cytoplasm and mitochondria, making it highly effective at preventing the fungus from building resistance.

Mode of application: Foliar Spray, Soil Drenching, Seed Treatment

Dose: 35gm in 15-liter water or 600-700gm per 1 acre