New Label Designs
	Syngenta Bioline has announced a change to its packaging labels. The new style gives a clearer area for written instructions. New symbols have been created for instructions for use, storage and user safety.

 

New Narrow “Rollertrap”

Syngenta Bioline has added a new 5cm sticky trap system to its range of “Rollertraps”. As an addition to the existing 30cm and 15cm wide rolls. Rollertraps can be used as part of an Integrated Crop Management program. Wider Rollertarps are often used alongside crops to catch in flights of a range of pasts such as whitefly. The new narrow traps can also be placed above rows of crops such as pot plants to capture whitefly, sciarids and aphids. The more narrow strips of traps reduce any shading which could result in uneven growth with wider traps.

 

Bumblebees in China

Syngenta Bioline Bees BV have been working in close cooperation with Tianyi Biological Control Company Ltd based in Hebei, P. R. China on the breeding and production of bumblebees for Chinese tomato growers for the last four years. In April2009 the first field demonstrations in the use of bumblebees for crop pollination in tomatoes was started. China has over 1.7 million hectares of vegetable crops, of which 275,000ha are protected tomatoes. This is a new venture in China as to date, growers still use hormones to help in pollination of their crops, unlike growers of tomatoes in other parts of the world who have been using bumblebees for the last 25 years.

 

A new packaging system will be added to our range, called the Mini Sachet it will be available in 2009 for users of Anderline aa. The new sachet enables growers to introduce Amblyseius andersoni at more release points in the crop. This easy to use system is more reliable than using loose material because the product is dosed more evenly and the risk of product being lost onto the floor is reduced. The hanging sachets in the crop also indicate where the product has been released.

 

Macroline c is now packed in a new wide-mouthed bottle.. The carrier will be moist wood flakes. The new formulation has been designed to allow the Macrolophus caliginosus to move around in the bottle during shipment, this reduces the risk of damage to the predators and results in lower mortality after release into the crop.