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Tomato is one of the most important “protective foods” because of its special nutritive value. It is one of the most versatile vegetable with wide usage in Indian culinary tradition. Tomatoes are used for soup, salad, pickles, ketchup, puree, sauces and in many other ways It is also used as a salad vegetable. Tomato has very few competitors in the value addition chain of processing.  Tomato is the world’s largest vegetable crop after potato and sweet potato, but it tops the list of canned vegetables. The total global area under tomato is 46.16 lakh ha and the global production is to the tune of 1279.93 lakh tonnes.

Tomato Insecticides

S.No.ProductTechnicalTarget PestPHI
1JongaThiamethoxam 25% WGWhite fly5
2King CarbIndoxacarb 14.5% SCFruit Borer5
3Locslay 5%lambda cyhalothrin 5% ECFruit Borer4
4Locslay Selectlambda cyhalothrin 4.9% CSFruit Borer5
5NagaraImidachloprid 17.8 % SLWhite fly3
6TegataThiamethoxam 12.6% + Lambda cyhalothrin 9.5% ZC​Thrips, whitefly, fruitborer5
7KizombaNovaluron 5.25%+Indoxacarb 4.5% SCFruit borer, Leaf eating caterpillar

Tomato Fungicides

S.No.ProductTechnicalDiseasesPHI
1KirinThiophanate methyl 70 %WPRing rot7
2ParizoxAzoxystrobin 23% SCEarly blight, Late blight3
3Parizox-T2Azoxystrobin 11%+Tebuconazole 18.3%Early blight
4DozanCymoxanil 8% + Mancozeb 64% WPlate blight
5Noriko T3Azoxystrobin 18.2% w/w + Difenoconazole 11.4% w/w SEarly and late blight