Description:

AGRIVENTURE PARADIC is a fast-acting, non-selective contact herbicide. It is widely used in agriculture to destroy green plant tissue on contact, making it highly effective for rapid weed burn-down, pre-plant field preparation, and inter-row weed management in crops like cotton, paddy, wheat, and tea.

Technical content: Paraquat dichloride 24% SL

Key Features & Benefits:

• Rapid Burn-Down: Destroys green plant tissue upon contact, with visible wilting and desiccation often noticeable within hours to 48 hours.
• Non-Selective Action: Controls a broad spectrum of emerged weeds, grasses, and broadleaf weeds without affecting mature brown stems and bark of crops.
• No Residual Activity: Deactivates quickly upon contact with the soil, leaving no residual carryover to harm subsequent rotational crops.
• Rainfast Formula: Becomes non-washable (rainfast) within minutes of application, ensuring effectiveness even if it rains shortly after spraying.
• Ideal for No-Till Farming: Controls only the above-ground foliage, leaving roots intact to hold the soil and prevent erosion.

Crops suitability:

• Plantations & Cash Crops: Cotton, sugarcane, rubber, and tea.
• Fruits & Orchards: Grapes, banana, citrus, coffee, and coconut palms.
• Cereals & Grains: Rice/paddy and wheat.
• Vegetables & Root Crops: Potato.

Commonly used for:

• Weed Control in Plantations & Orchards: Used to manage both grassy and broadleaf weeds in tea, coffee, rubber, and orchards. Directed sprays are used to avoid damaging the main crops.
• Pre-Planting / Pre-Emergence: Applied before crop planting to clear fields for conservation agriculture and no-till farming.
• Crop Desiccation: Used to dry out crops like cotton and potato prior to harvest, making the mechanical or manual harvesting process easier.
• Aquatic Weed Management: Used to control unwanted submerged and emergent aquatic vegetation.
• Non-Crop Areas: Used for clearing weeds along bunds, roadsides, and ditches.

Mode of entry: Contact

Mode of action:

• Photosynthetic Disruption: When absorbed by the foliage, paraquat interferes with electron transfer in the photosystem I complex during photosynthesis.Oxidative Stress: This interference generates destructive reactive oxygen species (ROS), such as superoxide radicals.
• Cell Destruction: These free radicals destroy cell membranes and cytoplasm, leading to rapid desiccation (drying out) of the green foliage, often visible within 24 to 48 hours.

Mode of application: Foliar spray

Dose: 100ml in 15-liter water